Person Detail: Mary Therese McCarthy

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General Information:
Full Name: Mary Therese McCarthy
Biography: (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.
Author's Timeline:
1933		Dutchess County McCarthy graduated from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1933.
1948		Westchester County McCarthy taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, in 1948.
1936		New York County 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.
1912		(Unknown) County Mary Therese McCarthy was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1912.
1989		New York County Mary McCarthy died at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York, in 1989.
1949		(Unknown) County The Oasis Novel.
1963		(Unknown) County The Group Novel.
1950		(Unknown) County Cast a Cold Eye Novel.
1952		(Unknown) County The Groves of Academe Novel.
1971		(Unknown) County Birds of America Novel.
1956		(Unknown) County Venice Observed Nonfiction.
1959		(Unknown) County The Stones of Florence Nonfiction.
1967		(Unknown) County Vietnam Nonfiction.
1974		(Unknown) County The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits Nonfiction.
1989		(Unknown) County Mary McCarthy was interred at Castine Cemetery, Castine, Hancock County, Maine.
1942		(Unknown) County The Company She Keeps Novel.