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A Short Biography of Mary Therese McCarthy

Author Name:

Mary Therese McCarthy

Born As:

Mary Therese McCarthy

Other Names:

Born:

21 Jun 1912

Died:

25 Oct 1989




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Novelist, memoirist, atheist and literary critic                          
Selected Works:

The Company She Keeps - 1942 - reprint 2003
The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt - 1943
Gandhi - 1949
The Oasis - 1949, reprint 1999
Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue - 1950
The Groves of Academe - 1952, reprint 2002
The Contagion of Ideas - 1952
My Confession - 1953
A Charmed Life - 1955 - reprint 1992 reprint
Venice Observed - 1956 reprint1963 - the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book
The Stones of Florence - 1956, reprint of 1963 - 2002 reprint of 1963 edition - the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood - 1957, reprint 1972 - autobiography
On the Contrary - 1961
The Group - 1962, reprint 1991 - adapted as a 1966 movie of the same name.
Vietnam - 1967
Hanoi - 1968
The Writing on the Wall - 1970
Birds of America - 1971, reprint 1992
Medina - 1972
The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits - 1974
Cannibals and Missionaries - 1979, reprint 1991 - novel explores the psychology of terrorism
Ideas and the Novel - 1980
How I Grew - 1987
intellectual autobiography age 13–21
Intellectual Memoirs - 1992, published posthumously - edited and with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick)
A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays - 2002 - compilation of essays and critiques.                          
Married four times - 
First husband - Harald Johnsrud - married 1933
Second husband - Edmund Wilson - married 1938, one son, Reuel Wilson.