Mary McCarthy was an important American novelist and essayist.
Biographical summary
He was born on June 21, 1912 in Seattle ( Washington ) .
Memoirs of a Catholic Girl ( 1957 ) recounts her childhood as an orphan until she entered college. She studied at Vassar College. She wrote The Group ( 1963 ) about her life at that institution.
She settled in New York and worked as a literary and theatre critic. She wrote The Company (1942). Her later works include The Oasis (1949); The Gloves of Academo ( 1952 ); The Stones of Florence ( 1959 ); Vietnam (1967); The Mask of the State (1974) and Ideas and the Novel (1980).
He died on October 25 , 1989 in New York .
Works
- The Company She Keeps ( 1942)
- Cast a Cold Eye ( 1944)
- The Oasis ( 1949)
- The Groves of Academy ( 1952)
- A Charmed Life ( 1955)
- Sights and Spectacles ( 1956)
- Venice Observed (1956)
- The Stones of Florence (1956)
- Memories of a Catholic Girlhood ( 1957)
- On the Contrary ( 1961)
- The Group ( 1962)
- Vietnam ( 1967)
- Hanoi ( 1968)
- The Writing on the Wall ( 1970)
- Birds of America (1971)
- Medina (1972)
- The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974)
- Cannibals and Missionaries ( 1979)
- Ideas and the Novel ( 1980)
- Occasional Prose ( 1985)