Francine du Plessix Gray on growing up the daughter of a great Russian beauty
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Novelist and biographer Francine du Plessix Gray reflects on the fascinating lives of her parents in her memoir, Them, which follows their journey from the artistic Russian émigré community of 1930s Paris to the top of New York's high society. The memoir won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Francine du Plessix Gray was a French American writer and regular contributor to The New Yorker. Her books include Lovers and Tyrants, At Home with the Marquis de Sade, Madame de Staël and Soviet Women. She died in 2019.
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