The year she graduated from Vassar
, MMC
married the actor, director and playwright Harold Johnsrud
. She later realized that she had done the wrong thing. To marry a man without loving him...
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, 1988.
