Mary McCarthy

Mary Therese McCarthy (June 21 1912 - October 25 1989) was an American author and critic. She was politically active in left-wing politics for many years.

Selected works

• The Company She Keeps (1942)
• The Oasis (1949)
• The Groves of Academe (1952)
• Venice Observed (1956)
• Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
• The Stones of Florence (1959)
• The Group (1962), later made into a 1966 movie of the same name.
• Vietnam (1967)
• The Writing on the Wall (1970)
• Birds of America (1971)
• The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974)
• Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
• Ideas and the Novel (1980)