Nina Auchincloss Straight

Nina Gore Auchincloss Straight (formerly Steers, born January 10, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and socialite. She is the mother of writer/director Burr Steers as well as artist Hugh Auchincloss Steers, and a half-sister of Gore Vidal. Young Nina's parents divorced in 1941, and a year later, Hugh remarried for the third and final time to Janet Lee Bouvier, in 1942. Janet was the mother of future First Lady Jacqueline Lee Bouvier and Caroline Lee Bouvier. Nina's father had two more children with Janet, half-siblings to young Nina, Janet Jennings Auchincloss and James Lee Auchincloss. Hugh and Janet remained married until his death in 1976. Also in 1942, Nina's mother remarried for the third and final time to Robert Olds, but only remained married a short time until Robert's early death of pneumonia in 1943, after hospitalization for constrictive pericarditis and Libman-Sacks endocarditis, at the age of 46, just prior to his son Robin Olds' graduation from West Point.

Nina's paternal grandparents were Hugh Dudley Auchincloss Sr., a merchant and financier, and Emma Brewster (née Jennings) Auchincloss, a daughter of Oliver Burr Jennings, one of the original stockholders in Standard Oil. Her maternal grandparents were U.S. Senator Thomas Gore and Nina Belle (née Kay) Gore. In 1957, she inherited a $225,000 trust.

Nina subsequently attended and earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in 1961. While she attended Columbia, she worked part-time for columnist Charles Bartlett. In 1964, she earned an M.A. in history from Columbia, her second degree from Columbia. From 1963 until 1971, Nina worked as Washington correspondent and bureau chief During their marriage, Steers became a member of the Maryland State Senate. Together, they had three sons:

Hugh Auchincloss Steers (1962–1995), a painter Ivan Steers Burr Gore Steers (born 1965), a writer and filmmaker.

Nina and Steers separated in 1972 Nina and Michael's marriage ended in divorce in 1998. He later married Katharine Gould, a child psychiatrist and art historian, to whom he remained married until his death in 2004.

Published works Ariabella: The First (1981)