Discipline: Literature

Mignon McLaughlin

Discipline: Literature
Region: Coral Gables, FL
MacDowell Fellowships: 1964
Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983) was an American journalist and author. the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that later were collected in three books, entitled, The Neurotic’s Notebook, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, and The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook. She is known for a number of quotes. Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent attorney. She graduated from Smith College in 1933 and returned to New York, where she embarked on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines. She worked for Vogue magazine in the 1940s, and was copy editor and managing editor of Glamour magazine in the 1960s and early 1970s. She retired to Florida in 1973.

Studios

Phi Beta

Mignon McLaughlin worked in the Phi Beta studio.

Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…

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