Bowden Broadwater

In the same year as her second divorce, MMC married Bowden Broadwater , a staff member at The New Yorker. Eight years her junior, Broadwater assumed household domestic tasks in order to support her career.

MMC plunged into controversy once more with her novel A Charmed Life, which depicts the residents of a small New England town which was instantly identified with Wellfleet on Cape Cod, where she...