Homesick at The New Yorker

Maeve Brennen was an Irish-born journalist and short story writer who began working as a fashion copywriter for Harper’s Bazaar in New York during the 1940s. She also wrote a Manhattan society column for a Dublin based magazine called Social and Personal and also contributed a few pieces to The New Yorker before being offered a staff position in 1949. The New Yorker began publishing her short stories in the 1950s and she worked there until the 1980s. Brennan was also admired for her beauty and style and was known for wearing all black outfits and liked large, kooky glasses. She is sometimes considered to be the inspiration for the character Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany’s as she worked alongside Truman Capote at Harper’s Bazaar. Brennan’s best known works are The Long-Winded Lady, pieces she wrote for The New Yorker observing life in the city which were compiled into a book of the same name, a volume of her short stories titled A Spring of Affection, and her novella The Visitor, which was written in the 1940s but not published until 2000. In 2004 Angela Bourke wrote a biography about Brennan called Home Sick at The New Yorker, the cover photo for which I love!! VisitAmazon.com