Francine du plessix gray biography

French-American writer and literary critic (1930–2019)

Francine du Plessix Gray (September 25, 1930 – January 13, 2019) was a French-American Pulitzer Prize–nominated writer and literary critic.

Early life and education

She was born on September 25, 1930, in Warsaw, Poland, where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat – the commercialattaché.

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 FreeFrench Air Force died in 1940, shot down near Gibraltar.^[1][2]

Her mother, Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix (1906–1991), had come to France as a refugee from BolshevikRussia, 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 194 Gray, Francine du Plessix 1930– - Encyclopedia.com RYTEL