MacCarthy, Sir Desmond

MacCarthy, Sir Desmond

▪ English journalist
in full  Sir Desmond Charles Otto MacCarthy 
born May 20, 1877, Plymouth, Devon, Eng.
died June 8, 1952, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

      English journalist who, as a weekly columnist for the New Statesman known as the “Affable Hawk,” gained a reputation for erudition, sensitive judgment, and literary excellence.

      MacCarthy was associated with the Bloomsbury group. He began his career as a freelance journalist, quickly moving to editorial work at the New Quarterly (1907–10) and Eye Witness (1911–13; later New Witness). In 1913 he became a drama critic for the New Statesman. During World War I he served with the Red Cross attached to the French army (later described in Experience; 1935). He continued with the New Statesman as drama critic (1913–44), literary editor (1920–27), and weekly columnist (1920–29) and became senior literary critic to the Sunday Times in 1928. He was also editor of Life and Letters for five years.

      Believing that literary criticism “must be in great part a Natural History of Authors,” MacCarthy was most revealing when his approach was biographical rather than purely literary. He was open to original visions of reality in literature and helped promote unknown or new authors (including the then-obscure Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov). He gave literary talks for the British Broadcasting Company. His seven volumes of collected writings include Portraits (1931), Drama (1940), and Shaw (1951). MacCarthy was knighted in 1951.

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