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(1912-1989) Writer, novelist. Mary McCarthy was born in Seattle, Washington. She graduated from Vassar, 1933. She lived in an apartment at 18 Gay Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York in 1936. She later lived on Beekman Place, and also stayed at the Hotel Chelsea. As drama critic for the Partisan Review (1937-45), she gained a reputation for wit, intellect, and acerbity, qualities she brings to her fiction. Her novel “The Oasis” (1949) satirizes left-wing intellectuals, whereas “The Group” (1963), while analyzing the lives of eight Vassar graduates, satirizes an entire generation. Her other fictional works include “Cast a Cold Eye” (1950), “The Groves of Academe” (1952), and “Birds of America” (1971). Among her non-fiction works are “Venice Observed” (1956), “The Stones of Florence” 1959), “Vietnam” (1967), and “The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits” (1974). She was married to Edmund Wilson for a period of time. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, in 1948.

Full Name

Mary Therese McCarthy

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1912

BIRTH

Mary Therese McCarthy was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1912.

1933

OTHER

McCarthy graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1933.

1936

RESIDENCE

McCarthy lived in an apartment at 18 Gay Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, in 1936, and lived at various other addresses in Manhattan, New York.

1942

LITWORK

The Company She Keeps


Novel.

1948

OTHER

McCarthy taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, in 1948.

1949

LITWORK

The Oasis


Novel.

1950

LITWORK

Cast a Cold Eye


Novel.

1952

LITWORK

The Groves of Academe


Novel.

1956

LITWORK

Venice Observed


Nonfiction.

1959

LITWORK

The Stones of Florence


Nonfiction.

1963

LITWORK

The Group


Novel.

1967

LITWORK

Vietnam


Nonfiction.

1971

LITWORK

Birds of America


Novel.

1974

LITWORK

The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits


Nonfiction.

1989

DEATH

Mary McCarthy died at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York, in 1989.

1989

INTERMENT

Mary McCarthy was interred at Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine.

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