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Mignon McLaughlin

Born

in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States

June 06, 1913

Died

December 20, 1983

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Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent lawyer. Mignon graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1933 and returned to New York, where she embarked on a career as a journalist and a powerful and touching 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. With her husband Robert McLaughlin—an editor at TIME Magazine—she wrote the play Gayden, which had a limited run on Broadway during the 1949 season. McLaughlin authored the first and second Neurotic's Notebooks.

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Average rating: 4.18 · 61 ratings · 7 reviews · 4 distinct works

	The Complete Neurotic's Notebook 4.27 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1981	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin by Mignon McLaughlin, Josh Michaels (Goodreads Author) (introduction by) 4.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Neurotic's Notebook 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1963 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The second neurotic's notebook really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin (?)

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”
― Mignon McLaughlin

tags: inspirational

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“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

tags: doubt, self-consciousness

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“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
― Mignon McLaughlin, The Complete Neurotic's Notebook

tags: perception

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