Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – Oct 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. Her debut n
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Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – Oct 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. Her debut novel, The Company She Keeps, received critical acclaim depicting the social milieu of New York intellectuals of the late 1930s with unreserved frankness. It includes her celebrated short story “The Man in the Brook’s Brothers Shirt”. The Group (1963) remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for almost two years. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim fellowships in 1949 and 1959. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984.
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