The fact that many readers took that essay to be fiction led her to write an essay that begins by describing a student's intention to take a story and "put in the symbols.
In an essay for Harper's Weekly, this writer recalled a train ride on which she hid the fact that she had a Jewish grandmother from an anti-Semitic colonel who later ordered roast beef hash for lunch. The fact that many readers took that essay to be fiction led her to write an essay that begins by describing a student's intention to take a story and "put in the symbols." This author of "Artists in Uniform" offended Flannery O'Connor by raving about the symbolism of Holy Communion and describing her childhood loss of faith in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood. This longtime correspondent of Hannah Arendt wrote a novel in which a woman either falls or jumps from a 20th-story window after Harald Petersen cheats on her. That semi-autobiographical novel by this wife of Edmund Wilson begins with the wedding of Kay Strong and centers on a circle of eight friends from Vassar College. For 10 points, name this author of The Group.
In an essay for Harper's Weekly, this writer recalled a train ride on which she hid the fact that she had a Jewish grandmother from an anti-Semitic colonel who later ordered roast beef hash for lunch.
Mary McCarthy [or Mary Therese McCarthy]