Died 1989-10-25.
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Mary McCarthy
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship with her colleague Hannah Arendt and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of t…
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culture · American novelist and political activist (1912–1989) · journalist · novelist · writer · screenwriter · literary critic · autobiographer · critic · theatre critic · also Mary McCarthy, Mary McCarthy (American writer), Mary Therese McCarthy, McCarthy
Born 21 June 1912 · Died 25 October 1989 · Q268147
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I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.
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1989· 5 entries
At NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City
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“I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.”
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“Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex.”
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“I combine concrete cynicism with a sort of vague optimism.”
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1979· 1 entry
When she said on The Dick Cavett Show: "every word [Hellman] writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'
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1973· 1 entry
Delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature
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1967· 1 entry
And 1968, McCarthy travelled to North and South Vietnam, to report on the war from an anti-war perspective
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1963· 1 entry
“The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Second Series”
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1961· 2 entries
In 1961, McCarthy married career diplomat James R.
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McCarthy married career diplomat James R
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1959· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1959).
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1957· 1 entry
“' Memories of a Catholic Girlhood”
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1949).
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And was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959
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1933· 2 entries
Married Harald Johnsrud, an actor and playwright
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With an Bachelor of Arts cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa
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1912· 2 entries
Born 1912-06-21.
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In Seattle, 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 flu epidemic of 1918
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