Francine du Plessix Gray





Francine du Plessix Gray

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January 01, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland

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American a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic 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 prominent in media, art, an...more


Average rating: 3.65 · 588 ratings · 136 reviews · 20 distinct works
Them: A Memoir of Parents
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions
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At Home with the Marquis de...
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Madame de Stael: The First ...
3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Simone Weil
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Soviet Women: Walking the T...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings4 editions
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Lovers and Tyrants
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions
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The Queen's Lover: A Novel
2.95 of 5 stars 2.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions
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Rage and Fire: A Life of Lo...
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions
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October Blood
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings2 editions
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Hawaii: the sugar-coated fo...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions
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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

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

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