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Mary McCarthy (1912 - 1989) was an American
author and critic. She was politically active on the Left for many years.
She graduated from Vassar College in 1933. She
moved in Communist circles early in her life, but later repudiated
Communism and wrote vigorously against writers she considered to
by sympathetic to Stalinism.
She married several times. Her best known spouse was the critic
Edmund Wilson, whom she married in 1938.
She was also maintained a close friendship, and a sizable correspondence,
with Hannah Arendt.
Her feud with fellow writer Lillian Hellman went on in public
for years, and formed the basis for the play Imaginary Friends
by Nora Ephron.
Selected works
- The Company She Keeps (1942)
- Ths Oasis (1949)
- Ths Groves of Academe (1952)
- Venic Observed (1956)
- Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
- The Stones of Florence (1959)
- The Group (1962)
- Vietnam (1967)
- Birds of America (1971)
- The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974)
- Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
- Ideas and the Novel (1980)
External link
Mary (Therese) McCarthy, from the Books and Writers Calendar site (http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marymcc.htm)
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