- Marion Mainwaring
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Marion Mainwaring (born 1922) is an American writer.
Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel The Buccaneers, published in 1993. A novelist in her own right, she wrote the novel Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and Murder at Midyears (1953). She translated Youth and Age: Three Novellas by Ivan Turgenev and edited The Portrait Game, records of a parlor game played by Turgenev and his friends. Her most recent work is Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton (2001).
External links
- Works by or about Marion Mainwaring in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Categories:- 1922 births
- Living people
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- American writers
- Russian–English translators
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