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Mary McCarthy

Mary McCarthy (1912–1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy’s Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1979). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State

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Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) is one of the leading American women intellectuals of the twentieth century who is known for her sharp wit and keen perception of the American intellectual landscape. A fiction writer, cultural critic, and political commentator, McCarthy is associated with the anti-Stalinist liberal magazine, Partisan Review, in the 1930s and 40s.

From her early autobiographical writing, including Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957) and the collection of autobiographical sketches The Company She Keeps (1942), to her political satire of anarcho-pacifist movements of the 1940s in The Oasis (1949) and of fellow-traveling liberal intellectuals in the 1950s in The Groves of Academe (1952),to her best-selling mock- chronicle novel of a group of Vassar graduates of the class of 1933, The Group (1963), and her later political commentary on the war in Vietnam and the Watergate trials, Mary McCarthy looks at the changing political, cultural, and social scene wi

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Mary McCarthy (author)

American novelist and political activist (1912–1989)

For other people with the same name, see Mary McCarthy (disambiguation).

Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman.^[1] McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949^[2] and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959.^[3] She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters^[4] and the American Academy in Rome.^[5] In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[6] She won the National Medal for Literature^[7] and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984.^[8] McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse Universi