She was also known for her longtime feud with fellow author Lillian Hellman, a schism based more around political and ideological differences than anything else. She won the Horizon Prize, the Edward MacDowell Medal, and the National Medal for Literature. Propelled by the success of her debut, McCarthy became an esteemed figure of letters, known as much for her political activism as her stories, which were often personal, satirical, sharp, and seldom “proper.” By the time of her death in 1989, she held honorary degrees from nearly a dozen universities, and had been honored with two Guggenheim fellowships and a membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. McCarthy had first published The Company She Keeps as a series of interconnected but also standalone short stories, the most famous of which might be “The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt,” which showcases a young woman having a sexual affair with a stranger on a train. Urn:oclc:781507154 Republisher_date 20120326015508 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120324205226 Scanner esteemed (and often acerbic) satirist and critic, Mary McCarthy broke into the literary scene with her sometimes-shocking debut novel, The Company She Keeps, which was considered a “success de scandale” due to its semi-autobiographical depiction of the lifestyles of New York City intellectuals. OL94853W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.75 Pages 498 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0380521342 Urn:lcp:group00mary:epub:b78a49bf-9818-4574-acdc-2b3c19500681 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier group00mary Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3cz49k9w Isbn 0156372088 Lccn 89037994 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL7365963M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:48:19 Boxid IA173201 Boxid_2 CH101701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Diego Containerid_2 X0001 Date-raw SeptemDonorĪllen_countydonation Edition 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.

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