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.
(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.
[6] She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Authors Guild, Institute of Humanities at New York University,[6] and International PEN.