Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight (formerly Steers, born January 10, 1937)[1] is an American author, journalist, and socialite.
Her father had previously been married to Maya de Chrapovitsky, a Russian noblewoman with whom he had one son, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III.
[4] Young Nina's parents divorced in 1941, and a year later, Hugh remarried for the third and final time to Janet Lee Bouvier, in 1942.
Also in 1942, Nina's mother remarried for the third and final time to Robert Olds, but only remained married a short time until Robert's early death of pneumonia in 1943, after hospitalization for constrictive pericarditis and Libman-Sacks endocarditis,[5][citation not found][6] at the age of 46, just prior to his son Robin Olds' graduation from West Point.
[2] In 1955, Auchincloss made her debut at a formal ball given by her father and stepmother Janet (who lived in McLean, Virginia), at their summer home, Hammersmith Farm in Newport, Rhode Island.
From 1963 until 1971, Nina worked as Washington correspondent and bureau chief[11] for the Chattanooga Times, while raising her three sons.
At the time, she was in her second year of evening law school at American University and was working on a biography of her maternal grandfather, Oklahoma Sen. Thomas Pryor Gore.
The wedding was attended by Janet Auchincloss, Jackie Kennedy, Renata Adler, Beatrice Straight, and Peter Cookson.