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Mary McCarthy

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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 book cover

The Stones of Florence

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Venice Observed book cover

Venice Observed

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On the Contrary book cover

On the Contrary

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The Collected Essays Volume One book cover

The Collected Essays Volume One

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The Collected Novels Volume Two book cover

The Collected Novels Volume Two

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The Collected Essays Volume Two book cover

The Collected Essays Volume Two

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Mary McCarthy's Italy book cover

Mary McCarthy's Italy

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Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291) book cover

Mary McCarthy: Novels 1963-1979 (LOA #291)

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Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290) book cover

Mary McCarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963 (LOA #290)

Mary McCarthy
The Collected Novels Volume One book cover

The Collected Novels Volume One

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A Pilgrimage of Hope book cover

A Pilgrimage of Hope

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Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs book cover

Mary McCarthy's Collected Memoirs

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How I Grew book cover

How I Grew

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Intellectual Memoirs book cover

Intellectual Memoirs

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Ideas and the Novel book cover

Ideas and the Novel

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How I Grew book cover

How I Grew

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Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962 book cover

Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles, 1937–1962

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Vietnam book cover

Vietnam

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Memories of a Catholic Girlhood book cover

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

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The Stones of Florence book cover

The Stones of Florence

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