Mary Mccarthy: Novels & Stories 1942-1963: The Company She Keeps / The Oasis / The Groves of Academe / A Charmed Life

Description

A penetrating gaze and creative fusion of life and literature - 'mutual plagiarism' as McCarthy called it - became the hallmark of her fiction, which the Library of America now presents in full for the first time in deluxe collector's edition, collecting The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952) and A Charmed Life (1955). Also included are all eight of McCarthy's short stories, four from her collection Cast a Cold Eye (1950), and four collected here for the first time.

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989), novelist, critic, and political activist, was born in Seattle and orphaned at age six, thereafter raised by various relatives in Minnesota and Washington. She graduated from Vassar College in 1933 and went on to work as a critic for The New Republic, The Nation, and the Partisan Review, for which she was an editor from 1937 to 1948. She married four times, most notably in 1938 to the critic Edmund Wilson. She is the author of seven novels as well as many other volumes of autobiography, travelogues, essays, and criticism. Thomas Mallon, editor, is the author of eight novels, including Watergate and Fellow Travelers, as well as seven books of nonfiction. He directs the creative writing program at The George Washington University, in Washington, D.C.