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Francine du Plessix Gray

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born

January 01, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland

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Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs, History

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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

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Books by Francine du Plessix Gray

Average rating: 3.65 · 588 ratings · 136 reviews · 20 distinct works

	Them: A Memoir of Parents 3.73 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	My rating:
	At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life 3.83 avg rating — 128 ratings — 8 editions	My rating:
	Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman 3.39 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Simone Weil 3.39 avg rating — 59 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope 3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lovers and Tyrants 3.35 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1967 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Queen's Lover: A Novel 2.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	October Blood 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Hawaii: the sugar-coated fortress 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	My rating: