Mary McCarthy (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Mary McCarthy began writing as a drama critic for the Partisan Review. She wrote six novels. The Group (1963), the most widely read of these, was subsequently made into a film in Hollywood. She also wrote two autobiographies as well as numerous articles and books on art and politics. Most ground- breaking among her nonfiction is the autobiography Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), an idiosyncratic combination of fiction and nonfiction. In italicized bridges between each essay/story, McCarthy comments on the proportions of fact and...
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