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Mary V. Dearborn is the author of eight books. She received a B.A. in English and Classics from Brown University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. She was most recently a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Buckland ...
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Carson McCullers: A Life Drawing on new sources, including recently released transcripts of psychiatric sessions, the first major biography of this important American writer, decades ahead of her time, in almost fifty yearsThis website is maintained by Mary V. Dearborn.
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Events Join me to talk about my book at one of these upcoming appearances.This website is maintained by Mary V. Dearborn.
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Drawing on new sources, including recently released transcripts of psychiatric sessions, the first major biography of this important American writer, decades ahead of her time, in almost fifty yearsThis website is maintained by Mary V. Dearborn.
Mailer: a Biography
Reviews for Mailer: A Biography: "Mary Dearborn captures the heart of the heavyweight ego who has knocked out thirty-one books, six wives, nine children, and a mayoral run."This website is maintained by Mary V. Dearborn.
Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim
This book spans the life and career of Peggy Guggenheim—art collector, gallery owner, mistress to many (Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Max Ernst (whom she married), Duchamp, and countless others, and impresario of the twentieth-century art world. It follows her from her gilt-edged childhood in German-Jewish "Our Crowd" New York; years of hedonist expatriate life and a turbulent marriage in Paris ...