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Carol Brightman (1939–2019)

Autor(a) de Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy And Her World

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About the Author

Carol Brightman is the author of Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World, which won a National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, and the editor of Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy. She is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters mostrar mais Award in Literature. She lives in Walpole, Maine. mostrar menos
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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Brightman, Carol Deborah Morton
Data de nascimento
1939-10-05
Data de falecimento
2019-11-11
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Local de falecimento
Damariscotta, Maine, USA
Locais de residência
Wilmette, Illinois, USA
Winnetka, Illinois, USA
Walpole, Maine, USA
New York, New York, USA
Educação
University of Chicago (MA)
Vassar College (BA - History)
New Trier High School
Ocupações
biographer
journalist
teacher
editor
Organizações
City University of New York (Brooklyn College)
New York University
Viet Report (Founder)
Leviathan (Co-Founder)
Venceremos Brigade
Prémios e menções honrosas
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1996)

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Carol Brightman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up there and in Wilmette and Winnetka, Illinois. After graduating from New Trier High School, she went to Vassar College and then earned a master's degree from the University of Chicago.

As a graduate assistant in English at New York University in 1965, she co-founded a periodical entitled Viet Report to refute misinformation about the Vietnam War. It was sent to libraries and sold by groups like the American Friends Service Committee and Students for a Democratic Society. In 1967, Brightman went to North Vietnam as part of the Russell Tribunal contingent. The following year, she co-founded Leviathan, a New Left radical underground newspaper. She also served as a leader for the Venceremos Brigade, which arranged for young Americans to go to Cuba, and co-edited a book of writings by the participants with Sandra Levinson titled Venceremos Brigade: Young Americans Sharing the Life and Work of Revolutionary Cuba (1971).
She taught at Brooklyn College and was an associate editor at Geo magazine. She had a long-term relationship with Richard Levy, the father of her daughter. In 1987, Brightman, her partner Michael Uhl, and their son moved to Walpole, Maine, and she began writing books.
In 1992, she published Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World, which received the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Biography/Autobiography Award. She later edited correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy into a book titled Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975. Her younger sister Candace worked with the Grateful Dead as their lighting designer, which led Carol to write her book Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, consisting of interviews with band members and fans.

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quite possibly the best Grateful Dead book (and one of the best books on the 60s) I have read.
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burningdervish | Nov 29, 2016 |
Mary McCarthy was an outspoken critic of practically everything around her. From her humble beginnings as a self-proclaimed abused orphan Mary quickly grew into a witty writer and reporter with a constant comment about the world around her. No subject was off-limits whether it be about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her uncle, her contradictory religious views, losing her virginity at age 14, a scathing look at her peers in academia, Communism or war. Carol Brightman often quotes McCarthy to support her biography using both McCarthy's fiction and nonfiction. Two sections of photography round out an already very thorough account of the controversial Mary McCarthy.… (mais)
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SeriousGrace | Jun 16, 2010 |

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