Marion Mainwaring
Marion Jessie Mainwaring (April 21, 1922 - December 12, 2015) was an American writer, translator, and critic.[1]
Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel The Buccaneers, published in 1993.[2] She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton.[3] A novelist in her own right, she wrote the novel Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and Murder at Midyears (1953). She translated Youth and Age: Three Novellas by Ivan Turgenev and edited The Portrait Game, records of a parlor game played by Turgenev and his friends. Her most recent work is Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover.
References
- ↑ Mainwaring, Marion. "United States Public Records, 1970-2009". FamilySearch. Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ BOOK REVIEW : Picking Up Where a Master Left Off : THE BUCCANEERS by Edith Wharton, Completed by Marion Mainwaring, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1993.
- ↑ Study guide to The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton at enotes.com
External links
- Works by or about Marion Mainwaring in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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