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Feb 1, 1995 · Mary McCarthy, half bohemian literary lady and half would-be arbiter of high Wasp taste, seems an odd companion of the soul to Hannah Arendt, who was herself half and half of something very different—half relentless and imposing intellectual and half gnaedige Frau.
Jan 4, 2019 · Mary McCarthy’s (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) novels often feature herself, with an assumed name, as protagonist; she also exploited her husbands and other people close to her for fictional purposes.
McCarthy’s own writing style is classic: her sentences, architectural structures of balance and cadence; her rebellious point of view, a rainbow prism of satiric wit. The typical McCarthy story...
Jul 16, 2020 · In the posthumously published Intellectuals Memoirs, as much a memoir of her sexual life as her intellectual life, McCarthy recalls her bohemian time of free love as a divorcee living on Gay Street in Greenwich Village in the 1930s: “It was getting rather alarming,” confesses McCarthy.
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- 2020
Jun 17, 2024 · Mary McCarthy was an American critic and novelist whose fiction is noted for its wit and acerbity in analyzing the finer moral nuances of intellectual dilemmas. McCarthy, whose family belonged to all three major American religious traditions—Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish—was left an orphan.
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Jun 14, 2014 · Orson Welles starring as Macbeth in the 1948 feature film, which he also directed. Image from the Folger Shakespeare Library website. Throughout her career Mary McCarthy wrote a series of contrarian and confrontational essays that reinforced her reputation as a feisty curmudgeon.
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Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman.
