Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of the well-known writer and editor of the Times Literary Supplement Alan Pryce-Jones and Therese “Poppy” Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of a family. “Not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional and not quite secure.” Graduating from Magdalen College, Oxford, David Pryce-Jones served as Literary Editor at the Financial Times and the Spectator, a war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review.