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Francine du Plessix Gray

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in Warsaw, Poland

January 01, 1930

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Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, History

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Francine du Plessix Gray, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic, was born in Warsaw, Poland, where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attaché. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family (French father and Russian émigré mother) influenced her.

Widowed when her father died in battle, in 1940 du Plessix Gray's mother escaped France to New York with Francine. In 1942, her mother married Alexander Liberman, another White émigré from Russia, whom she had known in Paris as a child. He was a noted artist and later longtime editorial director of Vogue Magazine and then of Condé Nast Publications. The Libermans were socially promi...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 28,211 ratings · 648 reviews · 22 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Queen's Lover 2.79 of 5 stars 2.79 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Them: A Memoir of Parents 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 262 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life 3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman 3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simone Weil 3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 70 ratings — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope 3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovers and Tyrants 3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hawaii: the sugar-coated fortress 3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	October Blood 3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I shall never cease to marvel at the way we beg for love and tyranny.”
― Francine du Plessix Gray, Lovers and Tyrants

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“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.”
― Francine du Plessix Gray

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“...in Aristotle...leisure is a far more noble, spiritual goal than work...leisure is pursued solely for its own sake...: the pleasures of music and poetry, ... conversation with friends, and ...gratuitous, playful speculation. In Latin, the ultimate good is otium — the opposite is negotium, or gainful work.
We have sought too much counsel in the proto-Calvinist work ethic preached by St Paul...during the cessation of work we nurture family, educate, nourish friendships....in loafing, most of our innovations come...the routine of daily work has too often served as...sleep...a refuge from two crucial states — awakedness to the needs of others, and to the transcendent, which only comes...loitering, dallying, tarrying, goofing off.”
― Francine du Plessix Gray

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