Intellectual memoirs
Subtitle: New York, 1936-1938
By: Mary McCarthy ; with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: McCarthy, Mary, 1912- -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: Reveals the autobiographical impulse behind much of Mary McCarthy's most popular work ; chronicles the beginnings of her literary career, just as she is becoming not only a writer but a literary personality.
Notes: Portions of this book published in various periodicals.