The secret to NAFUSA’s member Robert Morgenthau’s long life may have been disclosed. The 95 year old former United States Attorney in the Kennedy Administration who served 34 years as the Manhattan district attorney, is the subject (or co-subject) of his wife’s new book, Timeless Love, Morgenthau, and Me, by Lucinda Franks. Sara Crichton Books/ Farra, Straus & Giroux. $28.

Franks and Morgenthau were married in the 70s, when Franks was a 26 year old former New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner. As Kati Marton put it in her book review, May Loves December in The New York Times, “The secret to a long and passionate union is to marry someone almost 30 years your senior.”

Gina Bellafante also discusses the book and the couple in An Original Power Couple, From a Much Different Time, in today’s Times.

Katherine Taylor For The New York Times