Mignon McLaughlin (June 6, 1913 – December 20, 1983) was an American journalist and author.

Biography

Mignon McLaughlin was born in

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, and grew up in

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, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent attorney. She graduated from

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in 1933 and returned to New York, embarking on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for ''

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'', ''

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'', and other women's magazines. With her husband, ''

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'' editor Robert McLaughlin, she wrote the play ''Gayden'', which had a limited run on Broadway during the 1949 season. In the 1950s, she began publishing aphorisms that were later collected in three books:''The Neurotic's Notebook'', ''The Second Neurotic's Notebook'', and ''The Complete Neurotic's Notebook''. In his commentary on aphorisms, Melvin Maddocks notes the focus in McLaughlin's book on selections that speak in a personal voice.Melvin Maddocks. "The Art of the Aphorism," ''The Sewanee Review'', Vol. 109, No. 2 (Spring, 2001), 171-184. p. 183. She worked for ''

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'' in the 1940s, '50s and '60s and was

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and managing editor of ''

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'' in the 1960s and early 1970s. She retired in 1973 and died in

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, on December 20, 1983.

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