Title: The Group (novel)
Content:  In 2001, The Group was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was adapted by Moya O'Shea, produced/Directed by Tracey Neale, and starred Gayle Hunnicutt, Rebecca Front, Teresa Gallagher, Joanna Weir, Tara Ward, Laurel Lefkow, Lorelei King, Moya O'Shea, Mark Caven, Henry Goodman, and William Hope.
Title: The Group (novel)
Content:  The Group is the best-known novel of American writer Mary McCarthy. It made New York Times Best Seller list in 1963 and remained there for almost two years. In 1966, United Artists released a film adaptation of the novel directed by Sidney Lumet. The novel touched on controversial topics for its time, such as free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism, and mental illness. It was banned in Australia, Italy, and Ireland.
Title: The Group (film)
Content:  The Group is a 1966 ensemble film directed by Sidney Lumet based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Mary McCarthy about the lives of a group of eight female graduates from Vassar-like college South Tower from 1933 to 1940. The cast of this social satire includes Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Jessica Walter, Kathleen Widdoes, and Joanna Pettet. The film also features small roles for Hal Holbrook, Carrie Nye, James Broderick, Larry Hagman and Richard Mulligan. The film touched on controversial topics for its time: free love, contraception, abortion, lesbianism, and mental illness.
Title: The Group (novel)
Content:  The novel stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for almost two years. It was banned in Australia, Italy, and Ireland for being offensive to public morals. The novel was reviewed critically and intensely for its vivid detail, length, and number of characters. At the time of its release, men questioned McCarthy's ability to be a professional writer. Notably, Norman Mailer for The New York Review of Books wrote that, "her book fails as a novel by being good but not nearly good enough...she is simply not a good enough woman to write a major novel." When an editor suggested to Candace Bushnell that she write "the modern-day version of The Group", she wrote Sex and the City, a collection of revealing essays that became the popular TV series and film. As Bushnell summarizes: "The Group reminds us that not much has really changed".
Title: The Group (novel)
Content:  Story" (where Joel Robinson referring to the group of college students from said short as "The Group") as well as the episode featuring the film "The Sinister Urge" (where Mike Nelson refers to a group of young women as "Mary McCarthy's The Group"). In the film The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), the character of Pookie Adams (Liza Minnelli) can be seen clutching a copy of The Group when she departs the bus after her first encounter with love interest Jerry Payne. Mentioned in A Right to Die (1964) by Rex Stout: Nero Wolfe "had read two chapters and ditched it." In a season 1 episode of Gilmore Girls entitled "Rory's Dance" (2000, S01E09), Rory is seen reading a copy of the book as she stands in line to buy tickets to a dance.
Title: The Group (literature)
Content:  The chairmanship of the group passed to Edward Lucie-Smith in 1959 when Hobsbaum left London to study in Sheffield. The meetings continued at his house in Chelsea, and the circle of poets expanded to include Fleur Adcock, Taner Baybars, Edwin Brock, and Zulfikar Ghose; others including Nathaniel Tarn circulated poems for comment. Lucie-Smith and Hobsbaum edited A Group Anthology (London: Oxford University Press, 1963); in the foreword the aim is described of writing 'frank autobiographical poems' and a 'poetry of direct experience'. In the anthology's epilogue Hobsbaum writes of the importance of discussion, and the writer's need for 'community to keep him in touch with his audience.' Satire was prominent in the works of Bell, Brownjohn, and Porter.
Title: The Book Group
Content:  The Book Group is a British comedy drama that was broadcast on Channel 4 between 2002 and 2003 and ran for two seasons. It was written and directed by the American-born, Glasgow resident Annie Griffin, who also wrote and directed Festival. It was the winner of two BAFTA Scotland awards. In January 2006, it was announced that screenwriter Andrew Davies would make a feature film adaptation of The Book Group for Film 4, but the project was never started.
Title: Group Sex (film)
Content:  Group Sex is a 2010 American comedy film written by Lawrence Trilling and Greg Grunberg. Trilling also directs, while Grunberg co-stars alongside Josh Cooke and Odette Yustman.
Title: The Grounding of Group 6
Content:  Hailed as a groundbreaking classic, the book caused controversy in 1983 because of its darkly comedic, surreal premise and its sexual content, which was then considered taboo for that genre. It was among the "five most popular library titles in the U.S. with the number of circulations from October 1984 through January 1985." The American Library Association's Young Adult branch recommended it to young readers as an 'Adventure', while Nancy C. Hammond, writing in the Horn Book in 1983 called it a 'Satiric Thriller' and 'Humorously Anti-establishment'. Teen advocacy publications such as the "Voice of Youth Advocate's" called Group 6 'a stunning literary success', 'a must summer read', and the debut of an author who would become highly regarded, world-wide, as an important youth 
Title: The Group (novel)
Content:  In some aspects the novel is autobiographical, in a satirical tone. Mary McCarthy studied literature at Vassar College and graduated in 1933, which is the class year of her group of eight characters. McCarthy's classmates from Vassar accused her of basing The Group characters on them and their experiences. Her first husband, Harald Johnsrud, shares the first name of the husband of the character Kay; the unusual (Nordic) spelling of the name is discussed several times in the novel. In parts of the book where McCarthy discusses sex, such as when Dottie loses her virginity, the author claims to come from her memories with past lovers, as an observer. McCarthy was also a supporter of Leon Trotsky, a political position shared by another of the characters in the novel, Polly Andrews. Mary McCarthy adopted the title of "lady-writer" mostly given by male critics. Although her works are supposedly written for women, they are commended by feminists. McCarthy denied being a feminist or writing for the "second-wave of feminism" as she believed in equality and freedom of rights but dId not view it as a gender issue.

Question: Who is the author of The Group?
Answer: Mary McCarthy.
Mary Therese McCarthy.