Mary McCarthy (author)

Mary Therese McCarthy ( born June 21, 1912 in Seattle, † October 25, 1989 in New York City ) was an American writer and suffragist.

Life

Mary McCarthy lost her parents at the age of six years. From their guardians she was both Protestant and Catholic, and Jewish education. She attended the Mesdames of the Sacred Heart Convent in Seattle, Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma and Vassar College.

Among other things, she was known for her friendship with Hannah Arendt. Your amicable and philosophical correspondence became world famous. McCarthy took pugnacious and committed part in debates of the New York Intellectuals.

Her biggest commercial success as a writer was in 1962 published novel The Clique (The Group), who wore partly autobiographical. The novel remained nearly two years on the bestseller list of the New York Times.

Mary McCarthy, who sympathized at times with Trotskyism was a sharp critic of the Vietnam War. Their two reports Vietnam Report ( 1967) and Hanoi, 1968 ( 1968) are also appreciated more than 30 years after the end of the war as profound background reports that were written about the situation in Vietnam during the U.S. involvement.

Works

  • The Company She Keeps (1942 )
  • The Oasis (1949 )
  • The Groves of Academe (1952 )
  • A Charmed Life (1955 )
  • Venice Observed (1956 )
  • Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957 ), A German Catholic childhood. Translated by Maria Dessauer
  • The Stones of Florence (1959 )
  • The Group ( 1962), German The Clique
  • Vietnam ( 1967)
  • Hanoi 1968 (1968)
  • The Writing on the Wall (1970 )
  • Birds of America (1971 )
  • The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974 )
  • Cannibals and Missionaries (1979 )
  • Ideas and the Novel (1980 )
  • How I Grew (1987 )
  • Intellectual Memoirs ( 1992)

Correspondence

  • Arendt, Hannah and McCarthy, Mary: Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy. From 1949 to 1975. Edited by Carol Brightman, New York 1995 ( In German confidence. Correspondence from 1949 to 1975. Piper, Munich, 1995, ISBN 3-492-03720-8 ).

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Mary MacCarthy Tacoma, Washington The Group (novel) Integrated Authority File
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