Summary Author and scholar of Benjamin Franklin's papers Claude-Anne Lopez has died at age 92.
NEW HAVEN: Lopez started her studies of Franklin s papers at Yale University with secretarial-type work and rose to a top editor s job.
Her son, Larry Lopez, says she had Alzheimer s disease and died Friday at her New Haven home.
Lopez spent years working on The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, a project at the university to collect, edit and publish Franklin s writings.
She specialized in the American founding father s private life, and wrote a handful of books about him.
Former Yale colleague Jonathan Dull ranks Lopez as one of the 20th century s great Franklin scholars.
She also helped found a Philadelphia-based network of people interested in Franklin s life.
