Mary McCarthy

AmericanJune 21, 1912 – October 25, 1989Satirical Fiction

American novelist, essayist, and critic whose corrosive wit and intellectual honesty made her one of the most formidable literary presences of mid-century America. The Group was a sensational novel; her memoir How I Grew and Memories of a Catholic Girlhood are among the finest American memoirs. Her feud with Lillian Hellman is legendary.