Bio
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was an American critic, public intellectual, and author of more than two dozen books, including her New York Times bestseller, The Group. After graduating from Vassar in 1933 McCarthy moved to New York City and garnered attention as a cutting theater and book critic, contributing to a wide range of publications, such as the Nation, the New Republic, Harper's Magazine, and the New York Review of Books. She served on the editorial staff of the Partisan Review from 1937 to 1948. During the 1940s and 1950s she was a vocal opponent of both McCarthyism and communism. She wrote liberal critiques of culture and power to the end of her life, opposing the Vietnam War in the 1960s and covering the Watergate scandal hearings in the 1970s.
In addition to The Group, her other novels include The Company She Keeps and Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. McCarthy also proved herself to be one of literature's greatest traveling companions with the publication of Venice Observed and The Stones of Florence.
For her work, McCarthy won a number of awards, including two Guggenheim Fellowships. She died on October 25, 1989.Mary McCarthy Books
The Stones of Florence
Mary McCarthyVenice Observed
Mary McCarthyOn the Contrary
Mary McCarthyThe Collected Essays Volume One
Mary McCarthyThe Collected Novels Volume Two
Mary McCarthyThe Collected Essays Volume Two
Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy's Italy
Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291)
Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290)
Mary McCarthyThe Collected Novels Volume One
Mary McCarthyA Pilgrimage of Hope
Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs
Mary McCarthyIntellectual Memoirs
Mary McCarthyIdeas and the Novel
Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962
Mary McCarthyMemories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthyThe Stones of Florence
Mary McCarthy