Amy Wilentz Jersey from 1934 to 1944, best known for prosecuting Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping trial. She attended Harvard for undergraduate study in 1976, and spent a year after graduation on a Harvard/Radcliffe fellowship at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Wilentz's first jobs in journalism were for "The Nation", "Newsday", and "Time". She also worked for Ben Sonnenberg's literary periodical "Grand Street," in its first years. She has followed events in Haiti for many years, from the fall of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 1986 through to the 2010 earthquake and the death of Jean-Claude Duvalier in 2014. Her works
Anti-Duvalier protest movement (CNG), under the leadership of Army Commander Henri Namphy, to rule the country after his exile. The Duvaliers settled in France and although lived comfortably, was denied a request of political asylum by the French authorities. Jean-Claude soon lost most of his wealth in his 1993 divorce with his wife. A private citizen, Jacques Samyn, unsuccessfully sued to expel Duvalier as an illegal immigrant (the Duvaliers were never officially granted asylum in France). Then, in 1998, a Haitian-born photographer, Gérald Bloncourt, formed a committee in Paris to bring Duvalier to trial. At the time, the French Ministry of the Interior