Mignon McLaughlin (6 June 1913 – 20 December 1983) was an American journalist and author.
Biography Mignon McLaughlin was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in New York City, where her mother, Joyce Neuhaus, was a prominent attorney."Joyce Bushel Dead at 83; Lawyer, Amateur Golfer," The New York Times, December 29, 1975, p. 28. She graduated from Smith College in 1933 and returned to New York, embarking on a career as a journalist and a writer of short stories for Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and other women's magazines.
With her husband, Time editor Robert McLaughlin, she wrote the play Gayden, which had a limited run on Broadway during the 1949 season.Internet Broadway Database https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/gayden-1836Playbill http://www.playbill.com/production/gayden-plymouth-theatre-vault-0000009634Louis Calta, "GAYDEN' TO DEPART ON SATURDAY NIGHT; Gaither Production Will Leave Plymouth After 7 Shows -- Fay Bainter in Cast", The New York Times, May 12, 1949, Section AMUSEMENTS, p. 27.
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 Vogue in the 1940s, '50s and '60s and was copy editor and managing editor of Glamour in the 1960s and early 1970s.
She retired in 1973 and died in Coral Gables, Florida, on December 20, 1983.
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External links
Mignon McLaughlin, profile at The Neglected Books Page