How I Grew (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary McCarthy
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Intellectuals, Adolescence, Teenagers, Sex or sexuality, Authors or writers, Education or educators, 1920’s, 1930’s, College life, Secondary education
- Locales: Seattle, WA, Minneapolis, MN, Poughkeepsie, NY
Readers familiar with McCarthy’s THE GROUP (1963) or her other novels and her collections of short stories will recognize in this memoir a central figure who might easily be included in her fiction. An orphan living with her Protestant grandparents, the Prestons, who were unimaginative but, within their scope, indulgent, she was early immersed in a world of books. Indeed, books, rather than people, seem to have formulated her adolescent character. At Garfield High School and later at Annie Wright Seminary (a finishing school for girls), she learned as much from fiction as from...
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