Grace Frank has worked as an editor and reporter for leading American newspapers, including The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and the Tampa Tribune, for many years. She has won numerous journalism awards, including recognition as the best education reporter in Florida (an annual honor given by the statewide teachers' union) and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for an investigative series into eye surgeries wrongly conducted outside a clinical trial. Grace holds a master's degree in international relations from the University of Chicago (attending on a full-tuition fellowship), and a bachelor's degree in political science, with minors in English, German and economics, from Rutgers University–Newark, NJ, campus.