American novelist and critic (died 1989)

Mary McCarthy

Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, her intimate friendship with her colleague Hannah Arendt and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature?

Born

1912

June 21

Died

1989

Era

1910s

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1989 Died

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533 A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarios sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily.
1307 Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mongols and Wuzong of the Yuan.
1529 French forces are driven out of northern Italy by Spain at the Battle of Landriano during the War of the League of Cognac.
1582 Sengoku period: Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful of the Japanese daimyōs, is forced to commit suicide by his own general Akechi Mitsuhide.

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The world in 1912

When Mary arrived

april 10 RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, UK, on her maiden and only voyage.
april 14 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and begins to sink.
april 15 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
april 16 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

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Alois Hába 1893– Czech composer and educator (died 1973) Benazir Bhutto 1953–2007 Pakistani politician, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born 1953) Claude Auchinleck 1884– English field marshal (died 1981) Dimitris Papaioannou 1964– Greek director and choreographer Heinrich Wölfflin 1864– Swiss historian and critic (died 1945) John Paul Young 1950– Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey 1985– American singer-songwriter Lana Wachowski 1965– American director, producer, and screenwriter Luis Antonio Tagle 1957– Filipino cardinal

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Arsenio Lacson 1912–1962 Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (born 1912) Chien-Shiung Wu 1912–1997 Chinese-American physicist and academic (born 1912) Danny Thomas 1912–1991 American actor, producer, and humanitarian (born 1914) David Brower 1912– American environmentalist, founder of the Sierra Club Foundation (died 2000) Eleanor Powell 1912–1982 American actress and dancer (born 1912) Erich Honecker 1912–1994 German politician (died 1994) Georg Solti 1912–1997 Hungarian-English conductor and director (died 1997) Habib Elghanian 1912– Iranian businessman (died 1979) Jackson Pollock 1912–1956 American painter (born 1912)

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