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Francine du Plessix Gray (Francine du Plessix) was born on 25 September, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland, is a French-American writer and literary critic (1930–2019). Discover Francine du Plessix Gray's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?

Popular As Francine du Plessix
Occupation Author
Age 89 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 25 September 1930
Birthday 25 September
Birthplace Warsaw, Poland
Date of death 2019
Died Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Nationality Poland

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Who Is Francine du Plessix Gray's Husband?

Her husband is Cleve Gray

Family
Parents Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix Tatiana Yakovleva du Plessix Liberman Alexander Liberman (stepfather)
Husband Cleve Gray
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Children Thaddeus Ives Gray Luke Alexander Gray

Francine du Plessix Gray Net Worth

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1906

Her mother, Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix (1906–1991), had come to France as a refugee from Bolshevik Russia, and ended an engagement to Vladimir Mayakovsky in 1928, before marrying du Plessix.

1930

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

She was born on September 25, 1930, 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 mother) influenced her.

1940

Her father, then a sub-lieutenant in the Free French Air Force died in 1940, shot down near Gibraltar.

During her widowhood, she once again became a refugee, escaping occupied France via Lisbon to New York in 1940 or 1941 with Francine and Alexander Liberman (1912–1999).

1942

In 1942, she married Liberman, another White Russian émigré, whom she had known in Paris as a child.

(During his love affair with Liberman's mother, her uncle, Alexandre Yacovleff, had recruited Tatiana to keep the boy occupied.) He was a noted artist and later a longtime editorial director of Vogue magazine and then of Condé Nast Publications.

The Libermans were socially prominent in media, art and fashion circles.

For the first six months in the United States, young Francine lived with her mother's father (whom she had never met) in Rochester, New York, while her mother settled in.

1952

She grew up in New York City and was naturalized a U.S. citizen in 1952.

She was a scholarship student at Spence School, where she fainted in the library from malnutrition.

Her mother learned that she had not been eating the meals the housekeeper prepared for her.

She attended Bryn Mawr College for two years, and earned a B.A. in philosophy at Barnard College in 1952.

From 1952 to 1954, Gray worked as a night-desk reporter for United Press International in New York City.

1954

From 1954 to 1955, she was an editorial assistant for Réalités, a French magazine, Paris.

1955

She became a freelance writer in 1955.

1957

On 23 April 1957, she married the painter Cleve Gray and until his death they lived together in Connecticut.

They had two sons, Luke and Thaddeus Ives Gray.

1964

From 1964 to 1966, she was a book editor for Art in America in New York City.

1968

In 1968, she became a staff writer for The New Yorker with Robert Gottlieb as her editor.

1975

In 1975, she was a distinguished visiting professor at City College of New York.

1981

In 1981, she was a visiting lecturer at Saybrook College, Yale University.

1983

Since 1983, she was an adjunct professor for the School of Fine Arts at Columbia University.

1986

Since 1986, she was a ferris professor at Princeton University.

1997

She became an Annenberg fellow at Brown University in 1997.

She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Authors Guild, Institute of Humanities at New York University, and International PEN.

2019

Francine du Plessix Gray died on January 13, 2019, in Manhattan.