“You’ll adore Mother,” she said to Dick in imagination. She is the author of seven novels as well as many other volumes of autobiography, travelogues, essays, and criticism.ĭottie turned restlessly in the bed. She married four times, most notably in 1938 to the critic Edmund Wilson.
Born in Seattle and orphaned at age six, thereafter to be raised by various relatives in Minnesota and Washington, McCarthy graduated from Vassar College in 1933 and went on to work as a critic for The New Republic, The Nation, and the Partisan Review, for which she was an editor from 1937 to 1948. In the sensational best seller The Group and in her other novels and stories she moved the experience of modern women front and center, inspiring a generation of readers and writers with stories that retain their capacity to delight and provoke. Whether writing about sex and infidelity, McCarthyism and Cold War paranoia, or Freudian psychoanalysis and the psychology of terrorism, she brought to her subjects a frankness, clarity of thinking, and avant-garde treatment of gender and sexuality that still feel ahead of their time. Mary McCarthy, novelist, critic, and political activist, transformed the scope and style of American literary fiction.
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