Maude Hutchins

Maude Phelps McVeigh Hutchins (1899–1991) was an American novelist born in New York City. She is considered one of the foremost practitioners of nouveau roman in the English language^[1]. Hutchins is best known today for her sexual coming-of-age novel Victorine ^[2] which was republished in 2008 by New York Review Books Classics.^[3] Other novels include Blood on the Doves and The Unbelievers Downstairs.^[4] She was married to University of Chicago president Robert Maynard Hutchins. They married in 1921 and divorced in 1948. They had three children.^[5]

Bibliography

• Diagrammatics (1932)
• Georgiana (1948)
• A Diary of Love (1950)
• Love is a Pie (1952)
• My Hero (1953)
• The Memoirs of Maisie (1955)
• Victorine (1959)
• The Elevator (1962) (Short story collection)
• Honey on the Moon (1964)
• Blood on the Doves (1965)
• The Unbelievers Downstairs (1967)

References

1. ^ Nin, Anais, The Novel of the Future, p. 166, Macmillan, New York, New York, 1968
2. ^ The New Yorker's Book Bench
3. ^ New York Review of Books page for Victorine
4. ^ Time review of The Unbelievers Downstairs
5. ^ Dzuback, Mary Ann, Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1991

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Name	Hutchins, Maude
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Date of birth	1899
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Date of death	1991
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