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| | Mary Therese McCarthy |
 | | McCarthy began writing fiction in 1938, at 26, when the second of her four husbands, Edmund Wilson, deciding she had a talent for it, shut her in a room and forbade her to come out until she had finished a story. |
 | | Mary McCarthy's volume with the Ruskinian title, "The Stones of Florence," belongs to the first category, for Miss McCarthy is not only well versed in the subject but her taste is sure and her style -- cool, astringently witty, yet eloquent -- seems tailor-made for depicting the brilliant, mercurial, skeptical Florentines. |
 | | McCarthy would be the tenth writer to receive the award, which was accompanied by no money but possessed an undeniable luster—in large part owing to the reputation of the colony, which had been founded in 1906 as a retreat for writers, artists, and musicians, freeing them to work without interruption for weeks at a time. |
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