Dominique Desanti
Acting · Born Aug 31, 1914 · Died Apr 8, 2011 (96) · Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Dominique Desanti (1920 – April 8, 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, educator and biographer. The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she was born Dominique Persky in Paris. She served in the French Resistance during the German occupation. She was a member of the French Communist Party from 1943 until 1956. Desanti was a correspondent for L'Humanité in the years following World War II. She also taught university in the United States. Desanti was married to the philosopher Jean-Toussaint Desanti; he died in 2002. She died in Paris in 2011. Source: Article "Dominique Desanti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
