VICTORIA LINCOLN was born in 1904 in Fall River, Massachusetts, where she lived until she graduated from the B.M.C. Durfee public high school in 1922. She majored in English at Radcliffe College, married the scion of a well-to-do Southern family, divorced, and later married Victor Lowe, a professor of philosophy whose primary interest was in the work of Alfred North Whitehead. They settled in Baltimore, Maryland. She had one child from her first marriage and two from her second.Miss Lincoln wrote many essays and short stories for women's magazines and several novels including "February Hill," which portrays a charming, thoroughly unconventional family and was later adapted for the stage by George Abbott as "The Primrose Path" (1939). Other novels included "Charles," a biographical novel about Charles Dickens, and "A Dangerous Innocence," set at the time of the Salem witch trials.She is best known for "A Private Disgrace: Lizzie Borden by Daylight." Born and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts, in the early 1900s, Ms. Lincoln understood the social milieu in which the famous murders occurred, and thus brings a unique perspective to the Lizzy Borden case. After many years of wanting to write about Lizzie Borden, and despite advice that the market for books on Lizzie was saturated, she decided that her unique perspective on the murders deserved a hearing. A PRIVATE DISGRACE received an Edgar as the best non-fiction crime book of 1967 from the Mystery Writers of America. Her final book, "Teresa, a Woman: A Biography of Teresa of Avila," about the 16th century Spanish saint, was published by State University of New York Press.In 1981 Miss Lincoln died in her home in Baltimore. She was 76.