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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American novelist and political activist (1912–1989)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other people with the same name, see <a href="/wiki/Mary_McCarthy_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Mary McCarthy (disambiguation)">Mary McCarthy (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Mary McCarthy</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Mary_Therese_McCarthy_NYWTS.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="McCarthy in 1963"><img alt="McCarthy in 1963" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Mary_Therese_McCarthy_NYWTS.jpg/220px-Mary_Therese_McCarthy_NYWTS.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="291" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Mary_Therese_McCarthy_NYWTS.jpg/330px-Mary_Therese_McCarthy_NYWTS.jpg 1.5x, 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class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a> A.B. (1933)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable awards</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters" title="American Academy of Arts and Letters">American Academy of Arts and Letters</a> (1960)<br /><a href="/wiki/Edward_MacDowell_Medal" title="Edward MacDowell Medal">Edward MacDowell Medal</a> (1984)<br /><a href="/wiki/National_Medal_for_Literature" title="National Medal for Literature">National Medal for Literature</a> (1984)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Harald Johnsrud (m. 1933)<br /><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Wilson" title="Edmund Wilson">Edmund Wilson</a> (m. 1938)<br />Bowden Broadwater (m. 1946)<br />James West (m. 1961)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(actor)" title="Kevin McCarthy (actor)">Kevin McCarthy</a> (brother)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mary Therese McCarthy</b> (June 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989) was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel <a href="/wiki/The_Group_(novel)" title="The Group (novel)"><i>The Group</i></a>, her marriage to critic <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Wilson" title="Edmund Wilson">Edmund Wilson</a>, and her storied feud with playwright <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Hellman" title="Lillian Hellman">Lillian Hellman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was awarded two <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowships" class="mw-redirect" title="Guggenheim Fellowships">Guggenheim Fellowships</a>, in 1949 and 1959.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was a member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Arts_and_Letters" class="mw-redirect" title="National Institute of Arts and Letters">National Institute of Arts and Letters</a><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_in_Rome" title="American Academy in Rome">American Academy in Rome</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1973, she delivered the <a href="/wiki/Huizinga_Lecture" title="Huizinga Lecture">Huizinga Lecture</a> in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title <i>Can There Be a Gothic Literature?</i> The same year she was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-AAAS_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AAAS-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She won the <a href="/wiki/National_Medal_for_Literature" title="National Medal for Literature">National Medal for Literature</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the <a href="/wiki/Edward_MacDowell_Medal" title="Edward MacDowell Medal">Edward MacDowell Medal</a> in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCarthy held honorary degrees from <a href="/wiki/Bard_College" title="Bard College">Bard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bowdoin_College" title="Bowdoin College">Bowdoin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Colby_College" title="Colby College">Colby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smith_College" title="Smith College">Smith College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Maine_at_Orono" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Maine at Orono">University of Maine at Orono</a>, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Aberdeen" title="University of Aberdeen">University of Aberdeen</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Hull" title="University of Hull">University of Hull</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literary_career_and_public_life">Literary career and public life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Literary career and public life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McCarthy's <a href="/wiki/Debut_novel" title="Debut novel">debut novel</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Company_She_Keeps_(novel)" title="The Company She Keeps (novel)">The Company She Keeps</a>,</i> received critical acclaim as a <i><a href="/wiki/Succ%C3%A8s_de_scandale" title="Succès de scandale">succès de scandale</a></i>, depicting the social milieu of <a href="/wiki/New_York_intellectuals" class="mw-redirect" title="New York intellectuals">New York intellectuals</a> of the late 1930s with unreserved frankness. It includes her celebrated short story "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" which <i><a href="/wiki/Partisan_Review" title="Partisan Review">Partisan Review</a></i> published in 1941. It recounts the sexual encounter of a young <a href="/wiki/Bohemianism" title="Bohemianism">bohemian</a> intellectual woman and a middle-aged businessman encountered in the club car of a train. Although she finds him fat and grey, she is intrigued by his elegant <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Brothers" title="Brooks Brothers">Brooks Brothers</a> shirts and his knowledge of literary figures. The story depicts—shockingly for the literary fiction of the era—not only the act of a woman choosing to engage in <a href="/wiki/Casual_sex" title="Casual sex">casual sex</a> with a complete stranger but, more importantly, how that act is rooted in the complexity of her character.<sup id="cite_ref-New_Yorker_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-New_Yorker-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After building a reputation as a <a href="/wiki/Satirist" class="mw-redirect" title="Satirist">satirist</a> and critic, McCarthy enjoyed popular success when the 1963 edition of her novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Group_(novel)" title="The Group (novel)">The Group</a></i> remained on the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times</i> Best Seller list</a> for almost two years. Her work is noted for its precise prose and its complex mixture of autobiography and fiction. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Randall_Jarrell" title="Randall Jarrell">Randall Jarrell</a>'s 1954 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Pictures_from_an_Institution" title="Pictures from an Institution">Pictures from an Institution</a></i> is said<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (July 2022)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> to be about McCarthy's year teaching at <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Lawrence" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarah Lawrence">Sarah Lawrence</a>. </p><p>McCarthy's feud with fellow writer <a href="/wiki/Lillian_Hellman" title="Lillian Hellman">Lillian Hellman</a> formed the basis for the play <i><a href="/wiki/Imaginary_Friends_(play)" title="Imaginary Friends (play)">Imaginary Friends</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Nora_Ephron" title="Nora Ephron">Nora Ephron</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their feud began in the late 1930s over ideological differences, and was rooted in McCarthy's belief in the innocence of the defendants in the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Trials">Moscow Trials</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Great_Purge" title="Great Purge">Great Purge</a> and Hellman's unyielding and uncritical support for Soviet Premier <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Stalin" title="Joseph Stalin">Joseph Stalin</a>. McCarthy further provoked Hellman in 1979, when she said on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dick_Cavett_Show" title="The Dick Cavett Show">The Dick Cavett Show</a></i>: "every word [Hellman] writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'." Hellman responded with a $2.5 million <a href="/wiki/Lawsuit" title="Lawsuit">lawsuit</a> against McCarthy for alleged <a href="/wiki/Libel" class="mw-redirect" title="Libel">libel</a>. Observers of the trial noted the irony of Hellman's defamation suit was that it brought significant scrutiny. It resulted in a serious decline of Hellman's reputation, as McCarthy and her supporters worked to <i>prove</i> that Hellman had lied. The case was dropped shortly after Hellman died in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although McCarthy broke ranks with some of her <i>Partisan Review</i> colleagues when they swerved toward conservative politics after <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, she carried on lifelong friendships with <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Macdonald" title="Dwight Macdonald">Dwight Macdonald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nicola_Chiaromonte" title="Nicola Chiaromonte">Nicola Chiaromonte</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Rahv" title="Philip Rahv">Philip Rahv</a>, <a href="/wiki/F._W._Dupee" title="F. W. Dupee">F. W. Dupee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hardwick_(writer)" title="Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)">Elizabeth Hardwick</a>. Perhaps most prized of all was her close friendship with <a href="/wiki/Hannah_Arendt" title="Hannah Arendt">Hannah Arendt</a>, with whom she maintained a sizable correspondence widely regarded for its intellectual rigor. After Arendt's passing, McCarthy became Arendt's literary executor, serving from 1976 until her own death in 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As executor, McCarthy prepared Arendt's unfinished manuscript <i><a href="/wiki/The_Life_of_the_Mind" title="The Life of the Mind">The Life of the Mind</a></i> for publication.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McCarthy taught at <a href="/wiki/Bard_College" title="Bard College">Bard College</a> from 1946 to 1947, and again between 1986 and 1989. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2022</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>McCarthy left the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> as a young woman, becoming an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In New York, she moved in "<a href="/wiki/Fellow_traveller" title="Fellow traveller">fellow-traveling</a>" Communist circles early in the 1930s, but by the latter half of the decade she had sided firmly with the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Stalinist_Left" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-Stalinist Left">anti-Stalinist Left</a>. She accordingly expressed solidarity with <a href="/wiki/Leon_Trotsky" title="Leon Trotsky">Leon Trotsky</a> and his followers after the <a href="/wiki/Witch_hunt" title="Witch hunt">witch hunt</a> targeting them culminated in the <a href="/wiki/Moscow_Trials" class="mw-redirect" title="Moscow Trials">Moscow Trials</a>. McCarthy also vigorously countered playwrights and authors she considered to be adherents of <a href="/wiki/Stalinism" title="Stalinism">Stalinism</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-White_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 113–130">: 113–130 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Opposition_to_Vietnam_War">Opposition to Vietnam War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Opposition to Vietnam War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1967 and 1968, McCarthy travelled to North and South <a href="/wiki/Vietnam" title="Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, to report on the war from an anti-war perspective.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She documented her observations in two books: <i>Vietnam</i>, and <i>Hanoi</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Interviewed after her first trip, she declared on British television that there was not a single documented case of the <a href="/wiki/Viet_Cong" title="Viet Cong">Viet Cong</a> deliberately killing a South Vietnamese woman or child.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She wrote favorably about the Viet Cong.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy visited North Vietnam in March 1968, only a month after the <a href="/wiki/Tet_Offensive" title="Tet Offensive">Tet Offensive</a> created havoc in South Vietnam. In her book, <i>Hanoi,</i> McCarthy provides a rare English-language description of life in North Vietnam during the war. McCarthy describes an orderly society, in which everyone pitched in to help with the war effort. North Vietnam received advance warning of most bombing attacks and McCarthy regularly had to take cover from American bombs.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McCarthy's visits to Vietnam were controversial. During her visit to North Vietnam, she met briefly with U.S. Air Force officer <a href="/wiki/James_Robinson_Risner" title="James Robinson Risner">James Risner</a>, who was being held as a prisoner of war by North Vietnam. Years later, after his release, Risner attacked McCarthy for her not having recognized that he had been tortured by the North Vietnamese while in custody.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, Washington to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife Martha Therese (née Preston), McCarthy and her three brothers were orphaned when both their parents died in the <a href="/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic" class="mw-redirect" title="1918 flu pandemic">flu epidemic of 1918</a>. She and her brothers, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(actor)" title="Kevin McCarthy (actor)">Kevin</a>, Preston and Sheridan, were raised in very unhappy circumstances by her father's <a href="/wiki/Irish_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Irish Catholic">Irish Catholic</a> parents in <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a>, and under the direct care of an uncle and aunt, whom she remembered for harsh treatment and abuse.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the situation became intolerable, McCarthy was taken in by her maternal grandparents in Seattle. Her maternal grandmother, Augusta Morganstern, was Jewish, and her maternal grandfather, Harold Preston, a prominent attorney and co-founder of the law firm <a href="/wiki/Preston_Gates_%26_Ellis" title="Preston Gates & Ellis">Preston Gates & Ellis</a>, was <a href="/wiki/Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="Presbyterian">Presbyterian</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Her brothers were sent to boarding school. </p><p>McCarthy credited her grandfather, who helped draft one of the nation's first <a href="/wiki/Workmen%27s_Compensation" class="mw-redirect" title="Workmen's Compensation">Workmen's Compensation</a> Acts, with helping form her liberal views. McCarthy explores the complex events of her early life in Minneapolis and her coming-of-age in Seattle in her memoirs, <i><a href="/wiki/Memories_of_a_Catholic_Girlhood" title="Memories of a Catholic Girlhood">Memories of a Catholic Girlhood</a></i> and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=How_I_Grew&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="How I Grew (page does not exist)">How I Grew</a></i>. Her younger brother, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy_(actor)" title="Kevin McCarthy (actor)">Kevin McCarthy</a>, became an actor and starred in such movies as <i><a href="/wiki/Death_of_a_Salesman_(1951_film)" title="Death of a Salesman (1951 film)">Death of a Salesman</a></i> (1951) and <i><a href="/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers" title="Invasion of the Body Snatchers">Invasion of the Body Snatchers</a></i> (1956). </p><p>Under the guardianship of the Prestons, McCarthy studied at the <a href="/wiki/Forest_Ridge_School_of_the_Sacred_Heart" title="Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart">Convent of the Sacred Heart - Forest Ridge</a> in Seattle and <a href="/wiki/Annie_Wright_Seminary" class="mw-redirect" title="Annie Wright Seminary">Annie Wright Seminary</a> in <a href="/wiki/Tacoma,_Washington" title="Tacoma, Washington">Tacoma</a>. She attended <a href="/wiki/Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar College</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Poughkeepsie_(town),_New_York" title="Poughkeepsie (town), New York">Poughkeepsie, New York</a>, where she graduated in 1933 with an <a href="/wiki/A.B." class="mw-redirect" title="A.B.">A.B.</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Cum_laude" class="mw-redirect" title="Cum laude">cum laude</a></i> and was elected to <a href="/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa" title="Phi Beta Kappa">Phi Beta Kappa</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage_and_family">Marriage and family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Marriage and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McCarthy married four times. In 1933, she married <a href="/w/index.php?title=Harald_Johnsrud&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Harald Johnsrud (page does not exist)">Harald Johnsrud</a>, an actor and playwright. She and critic <a href="/wiki/Philip_Rahv" title="Philip Rahv">Philip Rahv</a> were lovers. Her best-known spouse was her second husband, writer and critic <a href="/wiki/Edmund_Wilson" title="Edmund Wilson">Edmund Wilson</a>, whom she married in 1938 after leaving Rahv. They had a son, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reuel_Wilson&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reuel Wilson (page does not exist)">Reuel Wilson</a>. McCarthy and Wilson divorced in 1946. Later that year, she married <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bowden_Broadwater&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bowden Broadwater (page does not exist)">Bowden Broadwater</a>, who worked for <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i>. They also divorced. </p><p>In 1961, McCarthy married career diplomat James R. West.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McCarthy died of lung cancer on October 25, 1989, at <a href="/wiki/NewYork-Presbyterian_Hospital" title="NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital">NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital</a> in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Film_portrayals">Film portrayals</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Film portrayals"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the 2012 German movie <i><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Arendt_(film)" title="Hannah Arendt (film)">Hannah Arendt</a></i>, Mary McCarthy is portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Janet_McTeer" title="Janet McTeer">Janet McTeer</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_works">Selected works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Selected works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"The Man in The Brooks Brothers Shirt", published in <i><a href="/wiki/Partisan_Review" title="Partisan Review">Partisan Review</a></i> in 1941: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://hgar-srv3.bu.edu/collections/partisan-review/search/detail?id=283932">[1]</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Company_She_Keeps_(novel)" title="The Company She Keeps (novel)">The Company She Keeps</a></i> (1942), Harvest/HBJ, 2003 reprint: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-602786-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-602786-0">0-15-602786-0</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)" title="The Oasis (novel)">The Oasis</a></i> (1949), Backinprint.com, 1999 edition: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-58348-392-6" title="Special:BookSources/1-58348-392-6">1-58348-392-6</a></li> <li><i>Cast a Cold Eye</i> (1950), HBJ, 1992 reissue: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-15-615444-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-15-615444-4">978-0-15-615444-4</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Groves_of_Academe" title="The Groves of Academe">The Groves of Academe</a></i> (1952), Harvest/HBJ, 2002 reprint: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-602787-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-602787-9">0-15-602787-9</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Charmed_Life" title="A Charmed Life">A Charmed Life</a></i> (1955), Harvest Books, 1992 reprint: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-616774-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-616774-3">0-15-616774-3</a></li> <li><i>Sights and Spectacles: 1937–1956</i> (1956), FSG</li> <li><i>Venice Observed</i> (1956), Harvest/HBJ, 1963 edition: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-693521-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-693521-X">0-15-693521-X</a> (the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memories_of_a_Catholic_Girlhood" title="Memories of a Catholic Girlhood">Memories of a Catholic Girlhood</a></i> (1957), Harvest/HBJ, 1972 reprint: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-658650-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-658650-9">0-15-658650-9</a> (autobiography)</li> <li><i>The Stones of Florence</i> (1959), Harvest/HBJ, 2002 reprint of 1963 edition: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-602763-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-602763-1">0-15-602763-1</a> (the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book)</li> <li><i>On the Contrary</i> (1961), LBS, 1980 reissue: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-297-77736-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-297-77736-X">0-297-77736-X</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Group_(novel)" title="The Group (novel)">The Group</a></i> (1963), 1963 edition from Harvest/HBJ, 1991 reprint: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-637208-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-637208-8">0-15-637208-8</a></li> <li><i>Vietnam</i> (1967), Harcourt, Brace & World, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-193633-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-193633-1">0-15-193633-1</a></li> <li><i>Hanoi</i> (1968), Harcourt, Brace & World, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-138450-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-138450-9">0-15-138450-9</a></li> <li><i>The Writing on the Wall</i> (1970), Mariner Books, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-698390-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-698390-7">0-15-698390-7</a></li> <li><i>Birds of America</i> (1971), Harcourt, 1992 reprint: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-612630-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-612630-3">0-15-612630-3</a></li> <li><i>Medina</i> (1972), Harvest/HBJ, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-158530-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-158530-X">0-15-158530-X</a></li> <li><i>The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits</i> (1974), Harvest Books, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-657302-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-657302-4">0-15-657302-4</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Cannibals_and_Missionaries" title="Cannibals and Missionaries">Cannibals and Missionaries</a></i> (1979), Harvest/HBJ, 1991 reprint: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-615386-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-615386-6">0-15-615386-6</a></li> <li><i>Ideas and the Novel</i> (1980), Harvest/HBJ, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-143682-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-143682-7">0-15-143682-7</a></li> <li><i>The Hounds of Summer and Other Stories</i> (1981), Avon Books, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-38-078196-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-38-078196-4">0-38-078196-4</a></li> <li><i>Occasional Prose</i> (1985), HBJ</li> <li><i>How I Grew</i> (1987), Harvest Books, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-642185-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-642185-2">0-15-642185-2</a> (intellectual autobiography age 13–21)</li> <li><i>Intellectual Memoirs</i> (1992), published posthumously (edited and with a foreword by <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Hardwick_(writer)" title="Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)">Elizabeth Hardwick</a>)</li> <li><i>A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays</i> (2002), <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Review_Books" title="New York Review Books">New York Review Books</a></i>, (compilation of essays and critiques), <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-59017-010-5" title="Special:BookSources/1-59017-010-5">1-59017-010-5</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books_about_McCarthy">Books about McCarthy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Books about McCarthy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Sam Reese, <i>The Short Story in Midcentury America: Countercultural Form in the Work of Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams</i>, (2017), Louisiana State University Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780807165768" title="Special:BookSources/9780807165768">9780807165768</a></li> <li>Sabrina Fuchs Abrams, <i>Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics, And The Postwar Intellectual</i>, (2004), Peter Lang Publishing, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8204-6807-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-8204-6807-X">0-8204-6807-X</a></li> <li>Eve Stwertka (editor), <i>Twenty-Four Ways of Looking at Mary McCarthy: The Writer and Her Work</i>, (1996), Greenwood Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-313-29776-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-313-29776-2">0-313-29776-2</a></li> <li>Carol Brightman (editor), <i>Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949–1975</i>, (1996), Harvest/HBJ, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-600250-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-600250-7">0-15-600250-7</a></li> <li>Carol Brightman, <i>Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World</i>, (1992), Harvest Books, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-600067-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-600067-9">0-15-600067-9</a></li> <li>Joy Bennet, <i>Mary McCarthy; An Annotated Bibliography</i>, (1992), Garland Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8240-7028-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-8240-7028-3">0-8240-7028-3</a></li> <li>Carol Gelderman, <i>Mary McCarthy: A Life</i>, 1990, St Martins Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-312-00565-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-312-00565-2">0-312-00565-2</a></li> <li>Doris Grumbach, <i>The Company She Kept</i>, 1967, Coward-McCann, Inc., LoC CCN: 66-26531,</li> <li>Alan Ackerman, <i>Just Words</i>, (2011), Yale University Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-16712-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-300-16712-2">978-0-300-16712-2</a></li> <li>Michelle Dean, <i>Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion</i>, (2018), Grove Press, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0802125095" title="Special:BookSources/978-0802125095">978-0802125095</a></li> <li>Frances Kiernan, <i>Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy</i>, (2000), W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-03801-7</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Films_based_on_her_writing">Films based on her writing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Films based on her writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Group_(film)" title="The Group (film)">The Group</a>,</i> 1966 film directed by <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a>, based on McCarthy's novel by that name.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Women_%26_Men:_Stories_of_Seduction" title="Women & Men: Stories of Seduction">Women & Men: Stories of Seduction</a>,</i> 1990 <a href="/wiki/HBO_Films" title="HBO Films">HBO Films</a> release of a combination of stories, one of which was based on McCarthy's "The Man In The Brooks Brothers Suit".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:0-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/specials/mccarthy-obit.html">"Mary McCarthy, 77, Is Dead; Novelist, Memoirist and Critic"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. October 29, 1989<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 7,</span> 2008</span>. <q>Mary McCarthy, one of America's pre-eminent women of letters, died of cancer yesterday at <a href="/wiki/New_York_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Hospital">New York Hospital</a>. She was 77 years old and lived in <a href="/wiki/Castine,_Maine" title="Castine, Maine">Castine, Maine</a>, and Paris.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Mary+McCarthy%2C+77%2C+Is+Dead%3B+Novelist%2C+Memoirist+and+Critic&rft.date=1989-10-29&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2Fbooks%2F00%2F03%2F26%2Fspecials%2Fmccarthy-obit.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Montgomery Fellows Program. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/mary-mccarthy">"Mary McCarthy."</a> Dartmouth College, 2017. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">November 9,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=New+Politics&rft.atitle=Two+Invented+Lives&rft.ssn=summer&rft.date=1997&rft.aulast=Jacobson&rft.aufirst=Phyllis&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnewpolitics.mayfirst.org%2Fnode%2F268&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParini2004" class="citation book cs1">Parini, Jay (2004). Parini, Jay; Leininger, Phillip W (eds.). <i>The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature</i>. Oxford University Press. p. 48. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facref%2F9780195156539.001.0001">10.1093/acref/9780195156539.001.0001</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-515653-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-515653-9"><bdi>978-0-19-515653-9</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2002156325">2002156325</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/51289864">51289864</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+Encyclopedia+of+American+Literature&rft.pages=48&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F51289864&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F2002156325&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Facref%2F9780195156539.001.0001&rft.isbn=978-0-19-515653-9&rft.aulast=Parini&rft.aufirst=Jay&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFArendt1977–1978" class="citation book cs1">Arendt, Hannah (1977–1978). <i>The Life of the Mind</i>. Harcourt, Inc. p. xiii. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-15-651992-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-15-651992-5"><bdi>0-15-651992-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Life+of+the+Mind&rft.pages=xiii&rft.pub=Harcourt%2C+Inc.&rft.date=1977%2F1978&rft.isbn=0-15-651992-5&rft.aulast=Arendt&rft.aufirst=Hannah&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140823092453/http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/marymccarthy/mmbio.html">"Mary McCarthy: A Biographical Sketch"</a>. <i>Special Collections: Mary McCarthy – A Biographical Sketch</i>. Vassar College Libraries. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://specialcollections.vassar.edu/marymccarthy/mmbio.html">the original</a> on August 23, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">June 26,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Special+Collections%3A+Mary+McCarthy+%E2%80%93+A+Biographical+Sketch&rft.atitle=Mary+McCarthy%3A+A+Biographical+Sketch&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecialcollections.vassar.edu%2Fmarymccarthy%2Fmmbio.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcCarthy1988" class="citation news cs1">McCarthy, Mary (October 2, 1988). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/books/l-flannery-o-connor-s-works-684188.html">"Letter to the editor: Flannery O'Connor's works"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150525081014/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/02/books/l-flannery-o-connor-s-works-684188.html">Archived</a> from the original on May 25, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 18,</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Letter+to+the+editor%3A+Flannery+O%27Connor%27s+works&rft.date=1988-10-02&rft.aulast=McCarthy&rft.aufirst=Mary&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1988%2F10%2F02%2Fbooks%2Fl-flannery-o-connor-s-works-684188.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-White-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-White_18-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWhiteHarperCollins_Publishers2019" class="citation book cs1">White, Duncan; HarperCollins Publishers (2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1142845156"><i>Cold warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War</i></a>. New York: Custom House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-244981-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-244981-8"><bdi>978-0-06-244981-8</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1142845156">1142845156</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cold+warriors%3A+Writers+Who+Waged+the+Literary+Cold+War&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Custom+House&rft.date=2019&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1142845156&rft.isbn=978-0-06-244981-8&rft.aulast=White&rft.aufirst=Duncan&rft.au=HarperCollins+Publishers&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F1142845156&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1968/04/08/88936296.html?pageNumber=3">"2 Novelists Tell of Visit to Hanoi; Mary McCarthy Found Foe Confident of Winning"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 25,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=2+Novelists+Tell+of+Visit+to+Hanoi%3B+Mary+McCarthy+Found+Foe+Confident+of+Winning&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesmachine.nytimes.com%2Ftimesmachine%2F1968%2F04%2F08%2F88936296.html%3FpageNumber%3D3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mary McCarthy, <i>Vietnam</i> (1967); Mary McCarthy, <i>Hanoii</i> (1968).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLeckie,_Robert1992" class="citation book cs1">Leckie, Robert (1992). <i>The Wars of America</i>. Castle Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Wars+of+America&rft.pub=Castle+Books&rft.date=1992&rft.au=Leckie%2C+Robert&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLiukkonen" class="citation web cs1">Liukkonen, Petri. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20041209133724/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marymcc.htm">"Mary McCarthy"</a>. <i>Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi)</i>. Finland: <a href="/wiki/Kuusankoski" title="Kuusankoski">Kuusankoski</a> Public Library. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/marymcc.htm">the original</a> on December 9, 2004.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Books+and+Writers+%28kirjasto.sci.fi%29&rft.atitle=Mary+McCarthy&rft.aulast=Liukkonen&rft.aufirst=Petri&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kirjasto.sci.fi%2Fmarymcc.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mary McCarthy, <i>Hanoii</i> (1968).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcCarthy1974" class="citation journal cs1">McCarthy, Mary (March 7, 1974). <span class="id-lock-subscription" title="Paid subscription required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1974/mar/07/on-colonel-risner/">"On Colonel Risner"</a></span>. <i>The New York Review of Books</i>. <b>21</b> (3)<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 26,</span> 2014</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Review+of+Books&rft.atitle=On+Colonel+Risner&rft.volume=21&rft.issue=3&rft.date=1974-03-07&rft.aulast=McCarthy&rft.aufirst=Mary&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nybooks.com%2Farticles%2Farchives%2F1974%2Fmar%2F07%2Fon-colonel-risner%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKiernan2000" class="citation book cs1">Kiernan, Frances (2000). <i>Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy</i>. W.W. Norton. pp. 29–43. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-393-32307-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-393-32307-2"><bdi>0-393-32307-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Seeing+Mary+Plain%3A+A+Life+of+Mary+McCarthy&rft.pages=29-43&rft.pub=W.W.+Norton&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=0-393-32307-2&rft.aulast=Kiernan&rft.aufirst=Frances&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/17/arts/james-r-west-84-diplomat-married-to-mary-mccarthy.html">"James R. West, 84, Diplomat Married to Mary McCarthy"</a>. <i>The New York Times</i>. September 17, 1999<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 12,</span> 2010</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=James+R.+West%2C+84%2C+Diplomat+Married+to+Mary+McCarthy&rft.date=1999-09-17&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1999%2F09%2F17%2Farts%2Fjames-r-west-84-diplomat-married-to-mary-mccarthy.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mary_McCarthy_(author)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWilson2018" class="citation book cs1">Wilson, Reuel (2018). <i>Holding the road : away from Edmund Wilson and Mary McCarthy</i>. Charleston, South Carolina. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-7248-6306-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-7248-6306-5"><bdi>978-1-7248-6306-5</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1091357698">1091357698</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Holding+the+road+%3A+away+from+Edmund+Wilson+and+Mary+McCarthy&rft.place=Charleston%2C+South+Carolina&rft.date=2018&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F1091357698&rft.isbn=978-1-7248-6306-5&rft.aulast=Wilson&rft.aufirst=Reuel&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span><span class="cs1-maint citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite 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rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565239/">Mary McCarthy</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/7606">Mary McCarthy</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Internet_Broadway_Database" title="Internet Broadway Database">Internet Broadway Database</a> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q268147#P1220" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, 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Winter-Spring 1962 (27).</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Paris+Review&rft.atitle=Mary+McCarthy%2C+The+Art+of+Fiction+No.+27&rft.chron=winter%E2%80%93spring&rft.volume=Winter-Spring+1962&rft.issue=27&rft.date=1962&rft.au=Elisabeth+Sifton&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theparisreview.org%2Finterviews%2F4618%2Fthe-art-of-fiction-no-27-mary-mccarthy&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMary+McCarthy+%28author%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/26/specials/mccarthy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin#reviews">New York Times</a> Featured Author Page (Book Reviews, Interviews, Sound Clips.)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3028">Literary Encyclopedia</a> (in-progress)</li> <li>Petri Liukkonen. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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href="/w/index.php?title=Cast_a_Cold_Eye&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cast a Cold Eye (page does not exist)">Cast a Cold Eye</a></i> (1950), HBJ</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Groves_of_Academe" title="The Groves of Academe">The Groves of Academe</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Charmed_Life" title="A Charmed Life">A Charmed Life</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Venice_Observed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Venice Observed (page does not exist)">Venice Observed</a></i> (1956)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memories_of_a_Catholic_Girlhood" title="Memories of a Catholic Girlhood">Memories of a Catholic Girlhood</a></i> (1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Stones_of_Florence&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="The Stones of Florence (page does not exist)">The Stones of Florence</a></i> (1959)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=On_the_Contrary_(essays)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="On the Contrary 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(novel)">Cannibals and Missionaries</a></i> (1979)</li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ideas_and_the_Novel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ideas and the Novel (page does not exist)">Ideas and the Novel</a></i> (1980)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Bolt_from_the_Blue_and_Other_Essays" class="mw-redirect" title="A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays">A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays</a></i> (2002)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="New_York_Intellectuals" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Associated<br />people</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Bell" title="Daniel Bell">Daniel Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elliot_E._Cohen" title="Elliot E. Cohen">Elliot E. Cohen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Midge_Decter" title="Midge Decter">Midge Decter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Goodman" title="Paul Goodman">Paul Goodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Howe" title="Irving Howe">Irving Howe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Kazin" title="Alfred Kazin">Alfred Kazin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irving_Kristol" title="Irving Kristol">Irving Kristol</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Mary McCarthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwight_Macdonald" title="Dwight Macdonald">Dwight Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Phillips_(editor)" title="William Phillips (editor)">William Phillips</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Rahv" title="Philip Rahv">Philip Rahv</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Rosenberg" title="Harold Rosenberg">Harold Rosenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Rosenfeld" title="Isaac Rosenfeld">Isaac Rosenfeld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Delmore_Schwartz" title="Delmore Schwartz">Delmore Schwartz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diana_Trilling" title="Diana Trilling">Diana Trilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lionel_Trilling" title="Lionel Trilling">Lionel Trilling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Warshow" title="Robert Warshow">Robert Warshow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Major<br />publications</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Partisan_Review" title="Partisan Review">Partisan Review</a></i> (1934–2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Commentary_(magazine)" title="Commentary (magazine)">Commentary</a></i> (1945–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Oasis_(novel)" title="The Oasis (novel)">The Oasis</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Liberal_Imagination" title="The Liberal Imagination">The Liberal Imagination</a></i> (1950)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Encounter_(magazine)" title="Encounter (magazine)">Encounter</a></i> (1953–1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dissent_(American_magazine)" title="Dissent (American magazine)">Dissent</a></i> (1954–)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Public_Interest" title="The Public Interest">The Public Interest</a></i> (1965–2005)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Works about</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Intellectuals_(book)" title="The New York Intellectuals (book)">The New York Intellectuals</a></i> (1987 book)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anti-Stalinist_left" title="Anti-Stalinist left">Anti-Stalinist 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