Francine du Plessix Gray

Francine du Plessix Gray is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic.

Biography

She was born in Poland in 1931, where her father, Frenchman Bertrand du Plessix, served as a diplomat. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family (French father and Russian mother) influenced her. Bertrand du Plessix died fighting in the Resistance during the Nazi German occupation of France in the early years of World War II. Her mother Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix remarried a Russian artist who worked in Paris. She came to the United States with her parents in 1941. In 1957 she married the painter Cleve Gray (1918-2004) and until his death they lived together in Connecticut. The Grays had two sons. Her stepfather was the noted artist and longtime editorial director of Vogue Magazine, Alexander Liberman (1912-1999).

Books

*Gray, F. d. P. (1970). Divine disobedience: profiles in Catholic radicalism. New York: Knopf.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1972). Hawaii: the sugar-coated fortress. New York: Random House.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1976). Lovers and tyrants. New York: Simon and Schuster.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1981). World without end: a novel. New York: Simon and Schuster.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1985). October blood. New York: Simon and Schuster.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1990). Soviet women: walking the tightrope. New York: Doubleday.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1994). Rage and fire: a life of Louise Colet, pioneer feminist, literary star, Flaubert's muse. New York: Simon & Schuster.
*Gray, F. d. P. (1998). At home with the Marquis de Sade: a life. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster.
*Gray, F. d. P. (2001). Simone Weil. New York: Viking.
*Gray, F. d. P. (2005). Them: a memoir of parents. New York: Penguin Press. [http://books.google.com/books?id=QdLMFUEkOJQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:Francine+inauthor:du+inauthor:Plessix+inauthor:Gray&sig=ACfU3U0CoibOmMO3quRw3k9G2HISLVNysQ "Them" online]

External links

* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/28/garden/28gray.html NY Times Article, "At Home with Francine du Plessix Gray: A Back Turned On the High Life"]
* [http://books.google.com/books?as_auth=Francine+du+Plessix+Gray Francine du Plessix Gray's books online]
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2006/03/19/qa_francine_du_plessix_gray/ Boston Globe interview with Gray]
* [http://www.nybooks.com/authors/1467 NY Review of Books Gray Bibliography]