Marion Jessie Mainwaring (April 21, 1922 – December 12, 2015) was an American writer, translator, and critic. Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed

Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (; born Edith Newbold Jones; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and interior designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray ...

's novel ''

The Buccaneers ''The Buccaneers'' is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. The story is set in the 1870s, around the time Wharton was a young girl. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ...

'', published in 1993. She earlier assisted

R. W. B. Lewis Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis (November 1, 1917 - June 13, 2002) was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, the first National Book Critics Circle ...

in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton.Study guide to ''The Buccaneers'' by Edith Wharton at enotes.com
/ref> She wrote the novels ''Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea'' (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and ''Murder at Midyears'' (1953), based on her experiences in teaching at

Mount Holyoke College Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is the oldest member of the historic Seven Sisters colleges, a group of elite historically women's colleges in the Northeastern United States. ...

. She translated ''Youth and Age: Three Novellas'' by

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 (Old Style dat ...

and edited ''The Portrait Game'', records of a

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played by Turgenev and his friends. Her last major work was ''Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for

Morton Fullerton William Morton Fullerton (18 September 1865 – 26 August 1952) was an American print journalist, author and foreign correspondent for ''The Times''. Today he is best known for having a mid-life affair with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wha ...

'' (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover.

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