Francine du Plessix Gray (1930–2019)
Autor/a de Them: A Memoir of Parents
Sobre l'autor
Francine du Plessix was born in Warsaw, Poland on September 25, 1930. She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1952. For two summers she studied at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina. After writing radio reports at the United Press for two years, she moved to mostra'n més Paris to report on fashion for the French magazine Réalités. She returned to the United States and married the painter Cleve Gray in 1957. She wrote both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels included Lovers and Tyrants, World Without End, October Blood, and The Queen's Lover. Her nonfiction works included Divine Disobedience: Profiles in Catholic Radicalism, Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress, Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope, and biographies of the poet Louise Colet, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil, and Madame de Staël. Them: A Memoir of Parents won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006. She died from complications of congestive heart failure on January 13, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Francine du Plessix Gray
Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet : Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse (1994) 87 exemplars
Goldengrove 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Philosophy in the Boudoir: Or, The Immoral Mentors (1795) — Introducció, algunes edicions — 1,040 exemplars
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia (2008) — Col·laborador — 79 exemplars
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Nom oficial
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Altres noms
- du Plessix, Francine (birth name)
- Data de naixement
- 1930-09-25
- Data de defunció
- 2019-01-13
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA (naturalized)
- Lloc de naixement
- Warsaw, Poland
- Lloc de defunció
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Paris, France
Rochester, New York, USA
Warren, Conneticut, USA - Educació
- Barnard College
Bryn Mawr College
Spence School - Professions
- biographer
literary critic
novelist
essayist
journalist - Relacions
- Liberman, Alexander (step-father)
Gray, Cleve (husband) - Organitzacions
- The New Yorker
- Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1992)
- Biografia breu
- Francine du Plessix grew up in New York City with glamorous parents, the power couple Alexander Liberman (her stepfather), editorial director of Condé Nast, and the aristocratic Tatiana du Plessix, milliner to high society. They were both Russian émigrés who entertained grandly at their Manhattan townhouse. Francine won a scholarship to the Spence School and studied philosophy and religion at Bryn Mawr and Barnard Colleges. In 1957, after a brief career in fashion publishing, she married Cleve Gray, a painter. The couple had two sons and lived in a Connecticut farm house. Francine du Plessix Gray worked as a reporter and wrote numerous books, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated At Home With the Marquis de Sade: A Life (1998) and a memoir, Them (2005), that chronicled "the chimeric world of couture" her parents inhabited.
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Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 16
- També de
- 14
- Membres
- 1,573
- Popularitat
- #16,418
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 32
- ISBN
- 64
- Llengües
- 6
Overall I don't at all regret reading it, but maybe it's worth investigating a different biography of Weil.