Ms.
Francine du Plessix Gray
(
–
)
1930
2019
New York, NY
;
Warren, CT
Writer (novelist); Biographer
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2004
Novelist and biographer. Author of Rage and Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Lovers and Tyrants, Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope, a recent biography of Simone Weil, and At Home with the Marquis de Sade, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Regular contributor to The New Yorker.
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