Mary V. Dearborn

Mary V. Dearborn is an American biographer and author. Dearborn has published biographies of Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Peggy Guggenheim and others.

Dearborn received a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature from Columbia University in 1984.

Books in order of publication:

Biographies

Pocahontas’s Daughters: Gender and Ethnicity in American Culture (1986)

Love in the Promised Land: The Story of Anzia Yezierska and John Dewey (1988)

The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller (1991)

Queen of Bohemia: The Life of Louise Bryant (1996)

Mailer: A Biography (1999)

Mistress of Modernism: The Life of Peggy Guggenheim (2004)

Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (2017)

Carson McCullers: A Life (2024)