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Mignon McLaughlin

Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, – December 20, ) was an American journalist and author.

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Biography

Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent attorney.[1] She graduated from Smith College in and returned to New York, embarking on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines.

With her husband, Time editor Robert McLaughlin, she wrote the play Gayden, which had a limited run on Broadway during the season.[2][3][4]

In the s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books:The Neurotic's Notebook, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, and The Complete Neurotic's Notebook.

In his commentary on aphorisms, Melvin Maddocks notes the focus in McLaughlin's book on selections that speak in a personal voice.[5]

She worked for Vogue in the s, '50s and '60s and was copy editor and managing editor of Glamour in the s and early s.

She retired in and died in Coral Gables, Florida, on December 20,

References

  1. "Joyce Bushel Dead at 83; Lawyer, Amateur Golfer," The New York Times, December 29, , p.

  2. Louis Calta, "GAYDEN' TO DEPART ON SATURDAY NIGHT; Gaither Production Will Leave Plymouth After 7 Shows -- Fay Bainter in Cast", The New York Times, May 12, , Section AMUSEMENTS, p.
  3. Melvin Maddocks.

    Mignon mclaughlin biography channel Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, – December 20, ) was an American journalist and author. Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent attorney. [1].

    "The Art of the Aphorism," The Sewanee Review, Vol. , No. 2 (Spring, ), p.

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