Nina Straight
| Nina Auchincloss Straight | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Nina Gore Auchincloss 1935 Washington, D.C. |
| Education |
Potomac School Miss Porter's School |
| Alma mater |
Bryn Mawr College Columbia University American University |
| Occupation | Author, journalist |
| Spouse(s) |
Newton Steers (m. 1957; div. 1974) Michael Straight (m. 1974; div. 1998) |
| Children |
Hugh Auchincloss Steers Ivan Steers Burr Steers |
| Parent(s) |
Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr. Nina S. Gore |
| Relatives |
Gore Vidal (half-brother) Jackie Onassis (step-sister) Lee Radziwill (step-sister) Louis Auchincloss (cousin) |
Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight (born 1935), formally known as Nina Steers, is an American author, journalist, and socialite. She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers and artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers, half-sister of Gore Vidal, step-sister of First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier and actress Lee Radziwill.
Nina Gore Auchincloss was born in 1935 to Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Jr. (1897-1976) and Nina S. Gore (1903-1978). Hugh Auchincloss was an American stockbroker and lawyer, and a cousin of the novelist and lawyer, Louis Auchincloss. Hugh's parents were Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, Sr. (1858–1913), a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster Jennings. Nina S. Gore was the daughter of U.S. Senator Thomas Gore and his wife Nina Belle Kay. Hugh had previously been married to Maya de Chrapovitsky (1899-1990), a Russian noblewoman, from 1925 to 1932. Hugh and Maya had one child, a half brother to Nina, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III (1927–2015). Nina S. Gore had previously been married to Eugene Luther Vidal, an American commercial aviation pioneer, from 1922 to 1935. Nina and Eugene had one child, a half brother to Nina, the writer Gore Vidal (1925-2012). Hugh and Nina married in 1935. Besides Nina, the marriage produced one additional child, Thomas Gore Auchincloss (born 1937).
Hugh and Nina S. Gore divorced in 1941. In 1942, Hugh remarried for the third and final time to Janet Lee Bouvier (1907-1989), the mother of future First Lady Jacqueline Lee "Jackie" Bouvier (1929–1994) and Caroline Lee Bouvier (born 1933). Hugh and Janet had two children together, Janet Jennings Auchincloss (1945–1985) and James Lee Auchincloss (born 1947). Hugh and Janet remained married until his death in 1976. In June 1942, Nina remarried for the third and final time to Robert Olds (1896-1943). Unfortunately, Robert died of pneumonia on April 28, 1943, after hospitalization for constrictive pericarditis and Libman-Sacks endocarditis, at the age of 46, just prior to his son Robin Olds' graduation from West Point.
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