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Francine du Plessix Gray is a distinguished novelist, essayist and biographer, as well as a journalist and university lecturer.
She was born in the French Embassy in Warsaw, and, after her father's death with the Free French Forces in the Second World War, emigrated to the United States with her Russian -born mother. She has been decorated by the French government as Chevalier DE L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. In 1983 she received the National Magazine Award for best Reporting for her articles in Vanity Fair, currently she contributes frequently to the New Yorker. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, the painter Cleve Gray.
She has written eight previous books of fiction and non-fiction. Her first book, Divine Disobedience: Pro-files in Catholic Radicalism (1970) won the National Catholic Book Award. Other titles include Soviet Women (1990) and a biography of the nineteenth century French writer, Louise Colet, entitled Rage and Fire (1994). |
