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Francine du Plessix Gray

Born

in Warsaw, Poland

September 25, 1930

Died

January 13, 2019

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Biographies & Memoirs, History

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Francine du Plessix Gray, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic, was 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 promi ...more

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Francine du Plessix Gray’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 70,393 ratings · 1,694 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Queen's Lover 2.99 avg rating — 1,127 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Them: A Memoir of Parents 3.91 avg rating — 655 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At Home with the Marquis de Sade: A Life 3.92 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1998 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Simone Weil: A Penguin Life 3.75 avg rating — 223 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman 3.56 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope 3.89 avg rating — 93 ratings — published 1989 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lovers and Tyrants 3.58 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1967 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet : Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse 4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hawaii: the sugar-coated fortress 3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1972 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	World Without End 3.24 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1981 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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

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“A heart of fire in a shell of ice.”
― Francine du Plessix Gray, The Queen's Lover

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