Inspirational Quotes by Francine du Plessix Gray (American Writer, Literary Critic)

Francine du Plessix Gray (1930–2019,) was a French-born American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic. She was a novelist, journalist, biographer, feminist, a woman of letters, and memoirist.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, where her father was a French diplomat, Plessix Gray worked as a night-desk reporter for United Press International in New York City 1952–54 and as an editorial assistant for the French magazine Réalités 1954–55. A freelance writer since 1955, she was a book editor for Art in America in New York City 1964–66, becoming a staff writer for The New Yorker in 1968.

In 1975, Plessix Gray was a distinguished visiting professor at City College of New York. In 1981, she was a visiting lecturer at Saybrook College, Yale University. Since 1983, she was an adjunct professor for the School of Fine Arts at Columbia University. She also served as a Ferris Professor at Princeton University in 1986 and an Annenberg fellow at Brown University in 1997.

Plessix Gray’s notable publications include Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress (1972,) Lovers and Tyrants (1976,) World Without End (1981,) Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope (1989,) At Home with the Marquis de Sade (1998,) Simone Weil (2001,) and Them: A Memoir of Parents (2006.)

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