Author: Desmomd MacCarthy
Title: Memories
Description: MacGibbon & Kee, 1953. Hardcover. 223p 1p adverts. Sir Charles Otto Desmond MacCarthy FRSL (20 May 1877 - 7 June 1952) was a British writer and the foremost literary and dramatic critic of his day. He was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, MacCarthy also had a wider circle of friends, including Logan Pearsall Smith.In 1903 he became a journalist.For part of the First World War he worked in Naval Intelligence.In 1917 he joined the New Statesman as drama critic, and in 1920 became its literary editor. He wrote a weekly column under the pen-name The Affable Hawk. During this time he recruited Cyril Connolly to the paper.By 1928 he was losing interest in the New Statesman, and became the first editor of Life and Letters. Other periodicals he was associated with were New Quarterly and Eye Witness. MacCarthy became a literary critic for the Sunday Times, and several volumes of his collected criticism were published.He was author of the short ghost story Pargiton and Harby, reprinted in the Fourth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories.He was knighted in the 1951 New Year's Honour (wiki) . The book is clean and unmarked and near fine. See scans. . Near Fine

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