Mary McCarthy
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Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic, and feminist feminist.
Personal life
When both their parents died in 1918, Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, Martha Therese McCarthy, and her three children were orphaned. Kevin, Preston, and Sheridan, her Catholic father's siblings were raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, under the direct care of an uncle and aunt who were criticized for harsh treatment and abuse.
McCarthy was taken in by her maternal grandparents in Seattle when the situation became unbearable. Augusta Morganstern, her maternal grandmother, was Jewish, and Harold Preston, a prominent prosecutor and co-founder of Preston Gates & Ellis, was Presbyterian. Her brothers were sent to boarding school.
McCarthy credited her grandfather, who drafted one of the country's first Workmen's Compensation Acts, with helping her develop her liberal views. In her book, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, McCarthy addresses the intricate events of her youth in Minneapolis and her coming-of-age in Seattle. Kevin McCarthy, her younger brother, became an actor and appeared in films such as Death of a Salesman (1951) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).
McCarthy attended the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Seattle and Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma under the Prestons' guardianship. She attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she earned an A.B. in 1933. Cum lauded and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
McCarthy married four times. Harald Johnsrud, a playwright and actor, married her in 1933. She and critic Philip Rahv were lovers. Edmund Wilson, a writer and critic who married in 1938 after leaving Rahv, was her best-known spouse. Wilson and McCarthy had a son, Reuel Wilson.
Bowden Broadwater, a New Yorker, married Bowden Broadwater, who worked for the New Yorker, after they divorced in 1946. They also divorced. McCarthy married career diplomat James R. West in 1961.
Literary career and public life
Her debut book, The Company She Keeps, received critical acclaim as a success de scandal, portraying the social life of New York intellectuals of the late 1930s with unreserved frankness. It includes her famous short story "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt," which Partisan Review first published in 1941. It chronicles a young bohemian academic woman's sexual encounter with a middle-aged businessman in a train's club car. Despite the fact that she finds him fat and grey, she is intrigued by his luxurious Brooks Brothers shirts and his fascination with literary figures. The story depicts—shockingly for the literary fiction of the period—not only the act of a woman's decision to sleep with a stranger, but also how the act reveals her needs and desires as well as the complexity of who she is.
McCarthy, who rose to fame as a satirist and critic, had a fruitful run when her book The Group appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list for nearly two years. Her writing is known for its elthic prose and its tangled mixture of autobiography and fantasy.
McCarthy's year teaching at Sarah Lawrence is described in Randall Jarrell's 1954 book Pictures from an Institution.
Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends was inspired by her rivalry with fellow writer Lillian Hellman. The feud had existed since the late 1930s over ideological differences, particularly during the investigations of the Moscow Trials and Robert Hellman's support for the "Popular Front" with Stalin. When McCarthy appeared on The Dick Cavett Show in 1979, she prompted Hellman: "Every word [Hellman] writes is a lie, including "and" and "the"." Hellman responded by filing a $2.5 million libel lawsuit against McCarthy, which ended shortly after Hellman died in 1984. The irony of Hellman's defamation complaint, according to observers, was that it was subjected to serious scrutiny. Hellman's reputation has weakened as McCarthy and her allies tried to show that Hellman had lied.
Despite McCarthy's dissatisfaction with some of her Partisan Review colleagues after World War II, she maintained lifelong friendships with Dwight Macdonald, Nicola Chiaromonte, Philip Rahv, F. W. Dupee, and Elizabeth Hardwick. Hannah Arendt's close friendship with her that maintained a slew of scholars was perhaps the most coveted of all. McCarthy became Arendt's literary executor after Arendt's death in 1989, serving from 1976 to 1989. McCarthy, an executor, supervised Arendt's unfinished manuscript The Life of the Mind for publication. McCarthy taught at Bard College from 1946 to 1947, and then again in 1989 and 1989. She also taught a winter semester at Sarah Lawrence College in 1948.