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(1930-2019) Novelist, journalist. Francine du Plessix Gray was born in Warsaw, Poland, immigrated to New York with her mother, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Francine du Plessix Gray

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


Unknown

RESIDENCE

Mrs. Gray lived in Manhattan, New York.

Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Gray attended the Spence School in Manhattan, New York.

1930

BIRTH

Francine du Plessix was born in Warsaw, Poland, on September 25, 1930.

1940

RESIDENCE

Ms. Gray lived in Rochester, New York, for about six months, around 1940.

1952

OTHER

Mrs. Gray received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1952.

1969

LITWORK

Divine Disobedience: Profiles In Catholic Radicalism
Knopf

Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

Hawaii: the Sugar-Coated Fortress
Random House
0394479793 / 978-0394479798
Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

Lovers And Tyrants
Simon & Schuster
0671223380 / 978-0671223380
Semi-autobiographical novel.

1981

LITWORK

World Without End
Simon and Schuster
0671427865 / 978-0671427863
Novel.

1985

LITWORK

October Blood
Simon and Schuster
0671555111 / 978-0671555115
Novel.

1990

LITWORK

Soviet Women: Walking The Tightrope
Doubleday
0385247575 / 978-0385247573
Nonfiction.

1998

LITWORK

At Home with the Marquis De Sade: A Life
Simon and Schuster
9780684800073 / 978-0684800073
Biography.

2005

LITWORK

Them: A Memoir Of Parents
The Penguin Press HC
1594200491 / 978-1594200496
Memoir, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

2008

LITWORK

Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman
Atlas & Co.

Biography.

2012

LITWORK

The Queen's Lover: A Novel
Penguin Press
1594203377 / 978-1594203374
Historical novel.

2019

DEATH

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

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