guardianship of the Prestons, McCarthy studied at the Forest Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Seattle and Annie Wright Seminary in Tacoma. She attended Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she graduated in 1933 with an A.B. cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Marriage and family McCarthy married four times. In 1933 she married Harald Johnsrud, an actor and playwright. She and critic Philip Rahv were lovers. Her best-known spouse was her second husband, writer and critic Edmund Wilson, whom she married in 1938 after leaving Rahv. Wilson and McCarthy had a son, Reuel Wilson. After they divorced, in 1946 she married Bowden Broadwater, who worked for the New Yorker. They also divorced. In 1961, McCarthy married career diplomat James R. West. Death McCarthy died of lung cancer on October 25, 1989, at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Film portrayals In the 2012 German movie Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy is portrayed by Janet McTeer. Selected works "The Man in The Brooks Brothers Shirt", published in Partisan Review in 1941: The Company She Keeps (1942), Harvest/HBJ, 2003 reprint: The Oasis (1949), Backinprint.com, 1999 edition: Cast a Cold Eye (1950), HBJ, 1992 reissue: The Groves of Academe (1952), Harvest/HBJ, 2002 reprint: A Charmed Life (1955), Harvest Books, 1992 reprint: Sights and Spectacles: 1937–1956 (1956), FSG Venice Observed (1956), Harvest/HBJ, 1963 edition: (the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book) Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), Harvest/HBJ, 1972 reprint: (autobiography) The Stones of Florence (1959), Harvest/HBJ, 2002 reprint of 1963 edition: (the 1963 edition lacks the illustrations present in the original book) On the Contrary (1961), LBS, 1980 reissue: The Group (1963), 1963 edition from Harvest/HBJ, 1991 reprint: , adapted as a 1966 movie of the same name. Vietnam (1967), Harcourt, Brace & World, Hanoi (1968), Harcourt, Brace & World, The Writing on the Wall (1970), Mariner Books, Birds of America (1971), Harcourt, 1992 reprint: Medina (1972), Harvest/HBJ, The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974), Harvest Books, Cannibals and Missionaries (1979), Harvest/HBJ, 1991 reprint: Ideas and the Novel (1980), Harvest/HBJ, The Hounds of Summer and Other Stories (1981), Avon Books, Occasional Prose (1985), HBJ How I Grew (1987), Harvest Books, (intellectual autobiography age 13–21) Intellectual Memoirs (1992), published posthumously (edited and with a foreword by Elizabeth Hardwick) A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays (2002), New York Review Books, (compilation of essays and