A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays
Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was an American novelist, essayist, and critic. Her criticism, literary essays, and social commentary appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), The Group (1963), and Birds of America (1971). She was the author of two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959), and three works of autobiography. Her controversial essays on the Vietnam War first appeared in The New York Review of Books and were later collected in How it Went (1974).