A Charmed Life (38 page)
McCarthy won a number of literary awards, including the
Horizon
magazine prize (1949) and two Guggenheim Fellowships (1949–1950 and 1959–1960). She also received both the Edward MacDowell Medal and the National Medal for Literature in 1984. She was a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy in Rome. She received honorary degrees from numerous universities including Bard College, Smith College, and Syracuse University.
McCarthy passed away on October 25, 1989. The second volume of her autobiography was published posthumously in 1992 as
Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936–1938
.
A portrait of McCarthy, taken in 1959.
McCarthy with her brother Kevin, circa 1985.
McCarthy with her young son, Reuel Wilson, in 1940.
McCarthy at the wedding of her son, Reuel, in 1981.
McCarthy, circa 1929, on the cover of her autobiography
How I Grew
.
A flyer for a conference held in 1983 on McCarthy’s work.
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