Primary Works

The Company She Keeps, 1942.

The oasis. NY: Random House 1949. PS3525 .A1435 03

The groves of Academe. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1952. PZ3.M1272 Gr

A charmed life. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1955. PS3525.A1435 C48

Venice observed. Comments on Venitian civilization and notes on the plates by Andre Chastel; color photos. of paintings by Hans Hinz, Claudio-Emmer, photos. of Venice by Inge Morath. NY: Reynal, 1956. Folio DG674 .M14

Memories of a Catholic girlhood. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1957. PS3525.A1435 Z55

The Stones of Florence. Photos. by Evelyn Hofer and others. NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1959. N6921.F7 M28

The group. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1963. PZ3.M1272 Gs

Cast a cold eye. NY: New American Library, 1963. PS3525 .A1435 C3

The humanist in the bathtub. NY:New American Library 1964. PS3525 .A1435 Z56

Vietnam. NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. DS557 .A68 M3

Birds of America. NY: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1971. ps3525.A1435 B5

Medina. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. KF7642 M4 M3

The seventeenth degree. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. DS557 .A6 M2

Cannibals and missionaries. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979. PS3525.A1435 C25

Ideas and the novel. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. PN3347 .M3

Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata. libretto by Francesco Maria Piave ; story adaptation by Mary McCarthy; introduction by Gary Schmidgall ; general editor, Robert Sussman Stewart. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. ML410 .V4 G58

Occasional prose. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. PS3525 .A1435 A6

How I grew. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987. PS3525 .A1435 Z468

Intellectual memoirs: New York: 1936-1938. with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. PS3525 .A1435 Z47

"Mary McCarthy on F. W. Dupee." in Silvers, Robert B. and Epstein, Barbara. eds. The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships. NY: New York Review, 2006.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Abrams, Sabrina F. Mary McCarthy: Gender, Politics, and the Postwar Intellectual. NY: Peter Lang, 2004.

Ackerman, Alan. Just Words: Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Failure of Public Conversation in America. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 2011.

Bennett, Joy, and Gabriella Hochmann. Mary McCarthy: An Annotated Bibliography. NY: Garland, 1992.

Brightman, Carol. Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World. NY: Clarkson Potter, 1992.

Gelderman, Carol W. Mary McCarthy: a life. NY: St. Martin's P, 1988. PS3525 .A1435 Z64

- - -. Conversations with Mary McCarthy. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1991.

Hardy, Willene S. Mary McCarthy. NY: F. Ungar, 1981. PS3525.A1435 Z66

Hardwick, Elizabeth. "Elizabeth Hardwick on Mary McCarthy." in Silvers, Robert B. and Epstein, Barbara. eds. The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships. NY: New York Review, 2006.

Keyser, Catherine. Playing Smart: New York Women Writers and Modern Magazine Culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2010.

Kiernan, Frances. Seeing Mary plain: a life of Mary McCarthy. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. PS3525 .A1435 Z69

Schryer, Stephen. Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction. NY: Columbia UP, 2011.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 7: Mary McCarthy." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL: http://www.paulreuben.website/pal/chap7/mccarthy.html (provide page date or date of your login).  

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