Mary Dearborn
Mary Dearborn is an American
Dearborn received a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1984.[4]
Career
After the publication of her 2017 biography of Ernest Hemingway, Dearborn wrote a critical essay regarding his antisemitism. She reflected on her experience writing, where many sources sought to decrease the extent of his prejudices due to the time period. She emphasized that she did not believe the antisemitism was reason to stop reading his works, but instead provided another perspective to study his work from.[5]
Dearborn's biography Carson McCullers: A Life, was published in 2024. It is the first notable biography of Carson McCullers written in more than 20 years, though received mixed review after comparison to 1976 biography The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr.[6] In an article for Lit Hub, Dearborn described McCullers' career as creating "what may be American literature’s most detailed, carefully observed picture of what it means to be an outsider.[7]"
Works
Biographies
- Pocahontas's Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture (1986)
- Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey (1988)
- The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller (1991)
- Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant (1996)
- Mailer: A Biography (1999)
- Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim (2004)
- Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (2017)
- Carson McCullers: A Life (2024)
Introductions
- Henry Miller, Crazy Cock (1991)
- Henry Miller, Moloch: or, This Gentile World (1992)
External links
References
- ^ Lynn Neary, "Norman Mailer, Author and Social Critic, Dies at 84," NPR, November 10, 2007.
- New York Times, May 17, 1991.
- ^ Lucasta Miller, "The goodtime Guggenheim," The Guardian, November 11, 2005.
- ^ Mary V. Dearborn, The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991, book jacket.
- ^ "On Ernest Hemingway's 120th Birthday, A Look Back At His Anti-Semitism". The Forward. 2019-07-21. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
- ^ Dearborn, Mary V. (2024-02-28). "Literature's Lonely Hunter: On the "Sad, Happy Life" of Carson McCullers". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2024-03-11.
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