Emilie Benes Brzezinski was born on January 21, 1932 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was married to Zbigniew Brzezinski. She died on July 22, 2022 in Jupiter, Florida, USA.
Sculptor who worked in wood, using chisels, axes and chain saws.
She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in fine arts, and worked at one of Harvard's libraries, where she met her future husband.
Her father was a Czech diplomat. Her family moved to London at the outbreak of WWII. In 1943, the family moved to California, after crossing the Atlantic in a U.S. convoy that was pursued by German U-boats and hit by a torpedo.