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McCarthy remained an outspoken critic of politics in the decades that followed. Openly opposing the Vietnam War in the 1960s, she traveled to South Vietnam and wrote a series of articles for the
New York Review of Books
that were subsequently published as
Vietnam
(1967). Her coverage of the Watergate hearings in the 1970s is the basis for
The Mask of State
(1975). Her famous libel feud with writer Lillian Hellman, stemming from McCarthy’s appearance on the
Dick Cavett Show
in 1979
,
formed the basis for the play
Imaginary Friends
(2002) by Nora Ephron.
McCarthy won a number of literary awards, including the
Horizon
magazine prize (1949) and two Guggenheim Fellowships (1949–1950 and 1959–1960). She also received both the Edward MacDowell Medal and the National Medal for Literature in 1984. She was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Rome. She received honorary degrees from numerous universities including Bard College, Smith College, and Syracuse University.
McCarthy passed away on October 25, 1989. The second volume of her autobiography was published posthumously in 1992 as
Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936–1938
.
A portrait of McCarthy, taken in 1959.
McCarthy with her brother Kevin, circa 1985.
McCarthy with her young son, Reuel Wilson, in 1940.
McCarthy at the wedding of her son, Reuel, in 1981.
McCarthy, circa 1929, on the cover of her autobiography
How I Grew
.
A flyer for a conference held in 1983 on McCarthy’s work.
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Copyright © 1963 by Mary McCarthy
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Copyright 1954 by Mary McCarthy
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Chapters 11 and 12 appeared originally in the
New Yorker
in somewhat different form; one chapter appeared in
Partisan Review,
and one in
Avon Book of Modern Writing No. 2.
The author wishes to acknowledge with thanks the grant of a Guggenheim Fellowship, which was helpful to her during the writing of this book.
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