In September, 2011, she published a companion volume to "Sharkskin" which tells the story of Lagnado's mother, Edith. "The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit" was optioned by producer Anthony Bregman ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), according to a December, 2008 announcement in Publishers Marketplace. The presentation of the Rohr Prize took place in Jerusalem in April 2008. The prize, which is administered by the New York-based Jewish Book Council, comes with a $100,000 stipend and is the richest cash award in the Jewish literary world. The book, published by Ecco, was awarded the 2008 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Lagnado wrote a prize-winning memoir about her childhood, The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World. 205 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York City, and was a graduate of Vassar College. Lagnado was born to a Jewish family in Cairo, Egypt. She was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. Lucette Matalon Lagnado (Septem– July 10, 2019) was an Egyptian-born American journalist and memoirist.
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