Abigail McCarthy
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April 16, 1915
University of Minnesota (MA)
Abigail McCarthy | |
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| Born | Abigail Quigley April 16, 1915 Wabasha, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Died | February 1, 2001 (aged 85) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Alma mater | St. Catherine University (BA) University of Minnesota (MA) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 5 |
Abigail Quigley McCarthy (April 16, 1915 – February 1, 2001) was an American academic and writer, and the wife of politician and presidential contender Eugene McCarthy. She predeceased her estranged husband by almost five years.
Abigail Quigley was born in Wabasha, Minnesota, April 16, 1915. She graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from the College of St. Catherine (now St. Catherine University) in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1936. She received her M.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1942 and did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago and the Middlebury School of English.
Career
McCarthy was a Catholic author, educator, and activist. She wrote several successful books and was a regular columnist for Commonweal, a liberal Catholic magazine, from 1974 to 1999. She wrote reviews for The New York Times and The Washington Post. She wrote a memoir entitled "Private Faces, Public Places", first published in 1972. She founded and was first president of "Church Women United", a lay Catholic group. In 1986 she co-authored a novel titled One Woman Lost with Jane Muskie.