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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Francine du Plessix Gray is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic. She was born September 25, 1930 in Warsaw, Poland where her father, Vicomte Bertrand Jochaud du Plessix, was a French diplomat - the commercial attache. She spent her early years in Paris, where a milieu of mixed cultures and a multilingual family influenced her. Her father, then a Sub-Lieutenant in the Free French Air Force died in 1940, shot down near Gibraltar. Her mother Tatiana Iacovleff du Plessix had come to France as a refugee from Bolshevik Russia, 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 1941 with Francine and Alexander Liberman

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