Mary McCarthy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, drama critic, and poet, Mary Therese McCarthy was born the first of four children to Therese Preston and Roy Winfield McCarthy on June 21, 1912, in Seattle, Washington. Although the first six years of her childhood were nurtured within her close-knit family, McCarthy's life changed abruptly when her parents died in the 1918 flu epidemic.
For the next five years, McCarthy and her brothers were forced as orphans to live in a deceit-filled, irrational, abusive Minneapolis house. This atmosphere, as well as the...
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