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Lynn Darling was born on January 9, 1952 to Colonel Howard N. Darling and Dorothy Elizabeth Darling (née Budnik). She has two brothers, Howard Christopher Darling and Eric Joseph Darling.

Darling was an army brat and spent her childhood moving every few years between bases in Japan, Hawaii, and Kansas. She attended and graduated from high school W. T. Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1968. She attended Harvard University, where she worked as a reporter for the Harvard Crimson.

Following her graduation in 1972, Darling joined the staff of the Richmond Mercury, a local newspaper founded by Crimson alumni including Frank Rich, before being hired by Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post. She worked primarily for the Styles section.

It was during Darling’s time at the Post that she met her future husband, then-married editor Lee Adrien Lescaze. Their affair and subsequent marriage was captured in her 2007 work of non-fiction, Necessary Sins^[1][2].

When Lee Lescaze was forced to leave the Post over the relationship, the pair moved to New York City where Darling became a senior editor at Esquire. In that role, she became well known for her long-form profiles of celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Brokaw, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Linda Fiorentino.  Her works of non-fiction also include 2014’s acclaimed^[3] Out of the Woods.

She married Lescaze on January 18, 1986 in Washington D.C. Mr. Lescaze died on July 26, 1996 from lung cancer.

Ms. Darling and Mr. Lescaze have one daughter, Zoe Eliza Lescaze^[4].

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^[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB118073535629721939

^[2] https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2007/4/6/is-this-really-necessary-on-the

^[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/books/review/lynn-darlings-out-of-the-woods-and-more.html

^[4] https://www.vnews.com/Archives/2014/01/LynnDarlingmemoir-ns-vn-01172014