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Also Known As Mary Therese McCarthy
Born June 21, 1912 • Seattle • Washington
Died October 25, 1989 (aged 77) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Birds of America” • “Cannibals and Missionaries” • “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood” • “The Company She Keeps” • “The Group”
Charles Dudley Warner
American essayist
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
American writer
Henry James
Henry James
American writer
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O’Connor
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Willa Cather
Willa Cather
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David Sedaris
David Sedaris
American humorist and essayist
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
American writer
Mabel Loomis Todd
American writer and editor
Edward Hoagland
American writer
S.S. Van Dine
American critic, editor, and author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
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Italo Calvino
Italian author
Johan Borgen
Norwegian author
Tillie Olsen
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Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
American author
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Alice Walker
Alice Walker
American writer