In 1992, he married melinda pechangco, a nurse who had cared for tatiana during an early illness. Francine du plessix gray at her home in warren, conn. A regular contributor to the new yorker for decades, ms. Alexander liberman, the ambitious son of a prominent russian jew, was a gifted magazine editor and aspiring artist. The story of the enormously ambitious tatiana yakovleva du plessix and alex liberman is made for the big screen. She lives with her husband, the painter cleve gray. Her father, then a sublieutenant in the free french air force died in 1940, shot. In 1968, she became a staff writer for the new yorker with robert gottlieb.
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