Doris Grumbach

Doris Grumbach is the author of seven novels, six books of memoir, and a biography of Mary McCarthy. This essay is part of a larger memoir, Downhill Almost All the Way.

The Remains of My Days

Fond and fading memories of a robust literary life

By Doris Grumbach | Monday February 29, 2016

A Whole Day Nearer Now

But all life’s passion not quite spent

By Doris Grumbach | Tuesday March 11, 2014

The View from 90

Even when those in my generation have reached a state of serenity, wisdom, and relative comfort, what we face can hardly be called the golden years

By Doris Grumbach | Wednesday March 2, 2011

The Remains of My Days

By Doris Grumbach | Monday February 29, 2016

A Whole Day Nearer Now

By Doris Grumbach | Tuesday March 11, 2014

The View from 90

By Doris Grumbach | Wednesday March 2, 2011

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