ORU_A201.xml Guide to the Faith McNulty Manuscripts 1962-1963 McNulty (Faith) manuscripts Tanya Parlet. Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives 2013
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Faith McNulty manuscripts Keiffer, Elisabeth McNulty, Faith A 201 0.05 linear feet 2 containers 2 folders 1962-1963 Faith McNulty (1918-2005) was a journalist and a writer of non-fiction and children's books. The collection (1962-1963) contains manuscripts of the book Wholly Cats and her story, "Collision in the City," written for the New Yorker in 1963. English . 1

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Faith McNulty (1918-2005) was a journalist, and a writer of non-fiction and children's books.

McNulty was a staff writer for the New Yorker. She may be most known for her non-fiction book, The Burning Bed, The True Story of an Abused Wife, which was turned into a made-for-tv movie. However, she spent "her childhood summers on her grandmother's farm in Wakefield [and would later write] many books about animals and country life for adults and children." The book, Wholly Cats, which she wrote with her sister, Elisabeth Keiffer, is one of the many books McNulty authored about animals.

McNulty "attended Barnard College in 1937-1938, but dropped out after a creative-writing teacher told her she had no talent."

"In 1938, she married Charles M. Fair, a writer. The marriage ended in divorce. In 1945, she married John McNulty," who worked for The Daily News. "After her husband's death, in 1956, McNulty settled permanently on a farm they had bought in Wakefield and began to write books. In 1957, she married Richard H. Martin, a prop designer for the theater. He died in 1984."

[Source: New York Times obituary: Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher. "Faith McNulty Dies at 86; Wrote About Country Life." New York Times. April 17, 2005.]

Manuscripts in the collection contain corrections and edits. There is one piece of correspondence regarding the article written for the New Yorker.

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