She first saw Johnsrud onstage, where he performed in his own play The Red Cross Knights. His crisp voice and very pure diction caught her attention and made her eyes turn to seek the...
Family and Intimate relationships
Mary McCarthy
After her first divorce, MMC
ended her affair with Porter
(another writer, who died soon afterwards) and lived for some time with the literary critic and editor Philip Rahv
(born Ivan Greenberg). She made no...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Mary McCarthy
Cruel and Barbarous Treatment is a remarkable piece of satirical self exposure . . . a fictionalized account of the breakup with Johnsrud
and the affair with John Porter
.
Carol Gelderman,. Mary McCarthy: A Life. St Martin’s Press.
