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Gary's first wife was the British writer, journalist, and Vogue editor Lesley Blanch, author of The Wilder Shores of Love. They married in 1944 and divorced in 1961. From 1962 to 1970, Gary was married to American actress Jean Seberg, with whom he had a son, Alexandre Diego Gary.
Romain Gary was born as Roman Kacew on May 21st, 1914, in Russian Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania), into a Jewish family, to businessman Arieh-Leib Kacew and Litvak actress Mina Owczynska. He got fluent in Russian, Yiddish, Polish, and German as a child.
Romain Gary (born May 8, 1914, Vilnius, Lith., Russian Empire—died Dec. 2, 1980, Paris, France) was a Lithuanian-born French novelist whose first work, L’Éducation européenne (1945; Forest of Anger), won him immediate acclaim.
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Jun 19, 2018 · Gary married the actress Jean Seberg in 1962, months after she gave birth to their son Alexandre (Credit: Getty Images)
Romain Gary, born Roman Kacew, was a French novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator. He is the only author to have won the Prix Goncourt under two names. He is considered a major writer of French literature of the second half of the 20th century. He was married to Lesley Blanch, then Jean Seberg.
Dec 25, 2017 · Romain Gary was a great big liar. The French novelist, war hero, and diplomat made up stories the way other people make up beds: daily and conscientiously and without much premeditation. He...
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May 13, 2018 · For 15 years he was a French diplomat, for ten a jet-setting celebrity spouse – writing a significant French oeuvre along the way. By David Bellos. Born Roman Kacew in 1914 in Vilna, in the Russian Empire (now Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania), the precociously handsome boy who became Romain Gary was brought by his mother to Nice at the age ...
