Mary McCarthy

How I Grew

Memoir of intellectual and personal development through European education

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Mary McCarthy
Mary McCarthy

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.

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