Francine du Plessix Gray (1930–2019)
Auteur de Them: A Memoir of Parents
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Œuvres de Francine du Plessix Gray
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Nom légal
- Gray, Francine du Plessix
- Autres noms
- du Plessix, Francine (birth name)
- Date de naissance
- 1930-09-25
- Date de décès
- 2019-01-13
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA (naturalized)
- Lieu de naissance
- Warsaw, Poland
- Lieu du décès
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Paris, France
Rochester, New York, USA
Warren, Conneticut, USA - Études
- Barnard College
Bryn Mawr College
Spence School - Professions
- biographer
literary critic
novelist
essayist
journalist - Relations
- Liberman, Alexander (step-father)
Gray, Cleve (husband) - Organisations
- The New Yorker
- Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1992)
- Courte biographie
- 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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write about comments from those you know who hold opposing views of Simone - with which do you most agree?
The acclaimed author of Rage and Fire provides a definitive portrait of the complex life and times of one of the twentieth century's most profound thinkers and describes her diverse roles as intellectual, activist, union organizer, philosopher, and Christian mystic.
Weil's story itself is fascinating, which kept me going through the book. As a biography it was good in places but overall mediocre. Among other things, the author seemed intent on convincing readers that Weil was essentially anorexic. Perhaps it's true, but I didn't pick up this book for a retroactive diagnosis of Weil's eating habits.
Overall I don't at all regret reading it, but maybe it's worth investigating a different biography of Weil.
Overall I don't at all regret reading it, but maybe it's worth investigating a different biography of Weil.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 16
- Aussi par
- 14
- Membres
- 1,580
- Popularité
- #16,330
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 32
- ISBN
- 64
- Langues
- 6
Overall I don't at all regret reading it, but maybe it's worth investigating a different biography of Weil.