Robie Macauley
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Notable works | The Disguises of Love The End of Pity and Other Stories A Secret History of Time to Come Technique in Fiction |
Robie Mayhew Macauley (May 31, 1919 – November 20, 1995) was an American editor, novelist and critic whose literary career spanned more than 50 years.
Biography
Early life
Robie Mayhew Macauley was born on May 31, 1919, in
Education
As an undergraduate at
War years
He was drafted in March 1942 and served in World War II as a special agent in the
On April 23, 1945, Macauley's division helped liberate Flossenbürg concentration camp. Macauley later said, "I entered some concentration camps the day we liberated them--the most horrifying days of my life. My job was to interview survivors. Most of the bodies that I saw had been stripped and it was impossible to tell which were those of Jews and which of Christians. Nazi murder was a great leveler, fully ecumenical... Hitler's bell tolled for all..."[9]
Macauley wrote four autobiographical short stories based on his experiences doing intelligence work, collected in The End of Pity and Other Stories, (1957). In "A Nest of Gentlefolk", (winner of the 1949 Furioso Prize) he describes the CIC's futile search for
According to Macauley's letters archived at the
In his capacity as CIC Station Chief, he supervised the arrests, on October 30, 1945, of a number of
Robie Macauley was awarded the Legion of Merit for his work in detaining members of the Gestapo in Japan.[22]
Career
Iowa Writers Workshop
After the war, he taught briefly at
The Congress for Cultural Freedom
Macauley received a
He was a U.S. representative to the
The Kenyon Review
Playboy Magazine
In 1967, he co-initiated the
Houghton Mifflin
In 1978, he became a senior editor at
Death
Macauley died of
Publications
Novels
During his life Robie Macauley published two novels, The Disguises of Love (1951), the story of a university professor's love affair with a student and how it affects his wife and son, and A Secret History of Time to Come (1979), an adventure thriller set in a devastated post-apocalypse America 200 years in the future.
His last two novels, Citadel of Ice: Life and Death in a Glacier Fortress during World War I,[53] (2014), and The Escape of Alfred Dreyfus,[54] (2016) were published posthumously.
Short stories
His short fiction appeared in
In spite of his expertise and experience, Macauley's own fiction received only moderate recognition. "Robie Macauley's prose, like the best poetry, has a startling economy of means and precision of language", declared Melvin J. Friedman in Contemporary Novelists. "The author's work", continued Friedman, "is the enviable product of years spent in close and sympathetic relationship with the best novels from Jane Austen through James Joyce.[70]" David H. Lynn, editor of The Kenyon Review, described Macauley's fiction as "subtle, stinging, disturbing, witty.[71]" Eugene Goodheart, commenting on The End of Pity and Other Stories, said "Macauley has all the gifts of a master short story writer: narrative power, a quick and vivid imagination of character...a capacity for delivering the scene that at once surprises and satisfies the reader's expectation, i.e., a fine sense for the significant scene or action, a felicity of phrase that is not merely decoration, but becomes perception."[72]
Since 2001 StoryQuarterly has awarded the annual "Robie Macauley Award for Fiction."
Nonfiction
He co-authored (with
Bibliography
- A Secret History of Time to Come (1979) (Illustrated by Mark Hess)
References
- ^ "Leslie W. Boyer, James F. Guinane, Charles C. Macauley: Our Final Salutes", by Guy Miller, The Fossil, Volume 104, Number 1, Whole Number 334, Glenview, Illinois, October 2007
- ISBN 978-1-4067-2181-2, p. 331.
- ^ "Scoops Big Publishers On Book of Poetry", The Washington Post, Feb. 6, 1938, p. PY1.
- ^ Howard Junker, "Editor's Note: The Last Word: West Coast Writers and Artists", ZYZZYVA Spring 1999
- ISBN 978-0-571-13045-0
- ^ McAlexander, Hugh, "Peter Taylor: The Undergraduate Years at Kenyon" The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. 21, No. 3/4 (Summer – Autumn, 1999), pp. 43-57
- ^ Susan Hobson, "New Creative Writers: 17 Novelists Whose First Work Appears This Season", Library Journal, October 1, 1952, p. 1642.
- ^ Kennedy, Thomas E., "A Last Conversation with Robie Macauley", Agnii, Vol. 45, 1997.
- ^ Macauley R. "Who Should Mourn?", The New York Times, Letters to the Editor, August 8, 1976.
- ^ Macauley R. "A Nest of Gentlefolk." Furioso, 1949:5-19.
- JSTOR 4333212.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Thin Voice." The Kenyon Review, 1951;13(1):50-63.
- ^ Macauley R. "The End of Pity." New World Writing, 1952.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Mind Is Its Own Place", The Partisan Review, September 1953.
- ^ "Robie Macauley Papers at University of North Carolina at Greensboro". Library of Univ of North Carolina Greensboro. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
- ^ JSTOR 41337764. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
- ^ "26 Germans in Spy Ring Seized", The New York Times, October 30, 1945, p. 2.
- ISBN 978-1-86064-044-5, p. 283.
- Nippon Times, October 31, 1945, p. 11.
- ^ "NAZI AGENTS IN JAPAN ROUNDED UP Letters, Codes, and Despatches Seized". The Argus. Melbourne. 1 November 1945. p. 2. Retrieved October 31, 2022.
- ^ "Swiss Neutral Claims Nazis are Still on the Loose in Japan", Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 12, 1946, p. A5
- ^ Hobson, 1952, p. 1642.
- ^ "Dollina".
- ^ Cash, Jean. "Flannery O'Connor: Art Demands Celibacy" (PDF). unca.edu. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
- ^ Gooch, Brad, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor, 2009.
- ISBN 1-57233-192-5, pp. 25-26.
- ^ a b c Biography of Robie Mayhew Macauley
- ^ Ellis H, Meyer J. Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009, p. 145.
- Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War.
- ^ "The Michael Josselson Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center". hrc.utexas.edu. Retrieved August 3, 2023.
- ^ Pybus, Cassandra. "CIA as Culture Vultures", Jacket, July 12, 2000.
- ^ "Education: Ransom Harvest", Time, May 12, 1958.
- ^ "A John Crowe Ransom Chronology". www.english.illinois.edu.
- ^ "New Editor at Kenyon Review", The New York Times, March 25, 1958, p. 14.
- ISBN 0-8071-2590-3, p. 29.
- ^ "End of the Kenyon?", Time, March 9, 1970.
- ^ "Robie Macauley" (obituary), Toledo Blade, November 22, 1995, p. 12
- ^ Robie Macauley: An Inventory of His Collection, Harry Ransom Center.
- ^ Berman RS. "Macauley's 'Kenyon Review' the View from the Sixties." The Sewanee Review 1979;87(3):500-507.
- ISBN 9780865548145– via Google Books.
- ^ "5 Juries Selected to Pick '64 National Book Awards", The New York Times, December 2, 1963, p. 43.
- ^ "1964 Fellows".
- ^ A Guide to the Letters to Robie Macauley, University of Virginia Special Collections
- ^ "AGNI Fiction". www.webdelsol.com.
- ^ Lynn, D. H., "Editor's Notes", The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. 18, No. 3/4 (Summer–Autumn, 1996), p. 1.
- ^ "History of The Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines (CCLM)". Archived from the original on 2009-11-29.
- ^ Pauline Uchmanowicz, "A Brief History of CCLM/CLMP", The Massachusetts Review, Vol. 44, No. 1/2, Spring – Summer, 2003, pp. 70-87.
- ^ "Writer, Playboy Editor Robie Macauley (obituary)", The Boston Globe, November 22, 1995.
- ^ "Novelist and Editor Robie Macauley Dies", Star News, November 22, 1995, p. 4B
- ^ "Robie Macauley", [obituary] The San Francisco Chronicle, November 25, 1995, p. D4.
- ^ [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23007956 Thomas E. Kennedy, "The Dream of a Castle," Agni, No. 48, The Translation Issue (1998), pp. 142-146. Accessed February 20, 2023.
- ^ Pace, Eric, "Robie Macauley, 76, Editor, Educator And Fiction Writer" (Obituary), The New York Times, Nov 23, 1995
- ^ "Citadel of Ice". Citadel of Ice.
- ISBN 978-1522875864.
- ^ Macauley R. "A Nest of Gentlefolk", Furioso, 1949:5-19.
- ^ Macauley R. "Sauté Seven Larks Quickly." The North American Review, 1993;278(4):35-40
- ^ Macauley R. "The Chevigny Man." The Kenyon Review, 1955;17(1):75-93.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Wishbone." The Sewanee Review, 1950;58(3):456-481.
- ^ Macauley R. "This is the Story I Told Him." The Southern Review, 1993;29(3):514-534
- ^ Macauley R. "Dressed in Shade." Shenandoah, 1965.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Academic Style." Esquire, 1957.
- ^ Macauley R. "Lost." Fiction Magazine, 1993;11(2):43-56.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Barrington Quality." Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, 1970:28-37.
- ^ Macauley R. "For Want of a Nail." Cosmopolitan, October 1969, p. 152.
- ^ Macauley R. "Folie à Deux." Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1993:42-59
- ^ Macauley R. "That Day." Playboy, November 1967, p. 113.
- ^ "Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
- ^ "Paris Review – Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists". The Paris Review.
- ^ Blackford, Staige D., The Green Room, Winter 1993.
- ^ Contemporary Novelists, 6th edition, St. James (Detroit), 1996, pp. 633-34.
- ^ Lynn, 1996, p. 1.
- ^ Eugene Goodheart, "The Limits of Irony: The End of Pity and Other Stories by Robie Macauley", Critique, 5:2, Fall 1962, p. 77.
- ^ Macauley, R., and Ziff, L., America and Its Discontents, Xerox College Publishing (Waltham, Massachusetts), 1971.
- ^ Macauley R. "100-Proof Old Ernest, Most of it Anyway", New York Times Book Review, October 4, 1970
- ^ Among others, see "Big Novel: The Velvet Horn by Andrew Lytle." The Kenyon Review, 19(4):644-646.
- ^ Macauley R. Reviews: Mixed Company by Irwin Shaw, The Watchful Gods and Other Stories by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, and Cast a Cold Eye by Mary McCarthy. Furioso Winter 1951, 6:67-72.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Man Who Talked Too Well: Reminiscences of Ford Madox Ford." Vogue, 1950.
- ^ Macauley R. "A World More Attractive: A View Of Modern Literature And Politics" by Irving Howe. The New York Herald-Tribune, Dec 8, 1963.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Superfluous Man", The Partisan Review, 1952;XIX(2):169-182.
- ^ Macauley R. "Pound and Ford: Strange Literary Bedfellows: Pound / Ford, the Story of a Literary Friendship, by Brita Lindberg-Seyersted." The Boston Sunday Globe, March 6, 1983;B32.
- ^ Macauley R. "Witty Novel on Foibles of Men and Nations: The Triumph by John Kenneth Galbraith." The New York Review of Books, New York, 1967.
- ^ Macauley R. "A Moveable Myth", Encounter, 1964;XXIII(3):56-57.
- ^ Macauley R. "The Meaning of Leskov: Selected Tales by Nikolai Leskov, translated by David Magarshack." The New Republic, 1961:18-20.
- ^ Macauley R. "Grand Gossip from Mailer's Pals: Mailer: His Life and Times by Peter Manso." Book Week, Chicago Sun-Times 1985.
- ^ Macauley R. "White, Black and Everything Else." Dialogue, 1979;12(3):101-102.
- ^ Macauley, R. "The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke", Boston Review, 1990;15(3).
- ^ Macauley R. "The Dean in Exile: Notes on Ford Madox Ford as Teacher." Shenandoah, 1953:43-48.
- ^ Macauley R. "Seán Ó Faoláin, Ireland's Youngest Writer." The Irish University Review, 1976;6:110-117.
- ^ Macauley R. "The 'Little Magazines'." Transition, 1963(9):24-25.
- ^ Macauley R. "A Local Habitation and a Name." The Texas Quarterly, 1964;VII(2):29-40.
- ^ Macauley R. "On the Company We Keep." Ploughshares, 1989;15(2/3):203-213.
- ^ Macauley R. "Silence, Exile and Cunning." The Paris Review, Spring 1990 (No. 114):200-217.
External links
- "A Last Conversation with Robie Macauley" by Thomas E. Kennedy
- Technique in Fiction by Robie Macauley
- Review of The Disguises of Love by Stanley Edgard Hyman
- Finding Aid for the Robie MaCauley Papers at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- "Stranger, Tread Light" by Robie Macauley, The Kenyon Review, Vol. 17, No. 2 (Spring, 1955), p. 280.]
- "Folie A Deux", short fiction by Robie Macauley
- Clive Baldwin's psychoanalysis of The Disguises of Love in Chapter 6 of Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives, pp. 138–154.