- Grew up in the French Quarter of New Orleans where her father started Lafitte's, a well-known café and bar on Bourbon Street, frequented by such prolific personalities as Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal and Truman Capote.
- All four of her grandparents were teachers, and Grace herself taught at an academy for black teen dropouts for a time.
- Has two daughters. One, Marion Lane, is a painter who works often in collaboration with her mother. The two have hand crafted fine art boxes for ArtHaus, a Los Angeles gallery.
- One of four children of Roger Thomas Caplinger and Marion Grace (Zabriskie) Caplinger. Her mother had distant Polish ancestry.
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