Maeve Brennan

Maeve Brennan was born in Dublin on January 6, 1917, and moved to the United States with her family in 1934. She first worked as a copywriter for Harper’s Bazaar before becoming a writer and journalist. From 1949 until the early 1970s, she contributed columns, stories, book reviews, essays, and memoirs to The New Yorker. Her books include Die Besucherin, Mr. und Mrs. Derdon, Der Teppich mit den großen pinkfarbenen Rosen, Der Morgen nach dem großen Feuer, and Tanz der Dienstmädchen. Brennan died in New York in 1993.