Francine du Plessix Gray
| Francine du Plessix Gray | |
|---|---|
| Born |
September 25, 1930 Warsaw, Poland |
| Residence |
Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut Warren, Connecticut |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education |
Bryn Mawr College 1948-50 Black Mountain College summers 1951-52 Barnard College B.A. 1952 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Political party | Democratic party (United States) |
| Spouse(s) | Cleve Gray |
| Children | Thaddeus Ives Gray Luke Alexander Gray |
| Parent(s) |
Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix Tatiana Yakovleva du Plessix Liberman Alexander Liberman stepfather |
| Notes | |
Francine du Plessix Gray is an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic.
She was born on September 25, 1930, 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 mother) influenced her. Her father, then a sub-lieutenant in the Free French Air Force died in 1940, shot down near Gibraltar.
Her mother, Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix, (1906–1991) had come to France as a refugee from Bolshevik Russia, and ended an engagement to Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1928, before marrying du Plessix. During her widowhood, she once again became a refugee, escaping occupied France via Lisbon to New York in 1940 or 1941 with Francine and Alexander Liberman (1912–1999). In 1942, she married Liberman, another White Russian émigré, whom she had known in Paris as a child. (During his love affair with Liberman's mother, her uncle, Alexandre Yacovleff, had recruited Tatiana to keep the boy occupied.) He was a noted artist and later a longtime editorial director of Vogue magazine and then of Condé Nast Publications. The Libermans were socially prominent in media, art and fashion circles.
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