McCarthy, Mary

A twentieth-century American writer and critic noted for her satirical novels , such as The Groves of Academe and The Group , about the lives of eight Vassar College graduates. Memories of a Catholic Girlhood is about her childhood as an orphan raised by diverse and unsympathetic relatives.

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He cites Mary McCarthy: ‘Everything that has ever been said about Venice has been said before—even this statement.’

In 1963, Mary McCarthy published her classic novel The Group, following the lives and aspirations of a group of Vassar grads.

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