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 Newbold Wharton (; ; January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937) was an American writer and designer. Wharton drew upon her insider's knowledge of the upper-class New York "aristocracy" to portray, realistically, the lives and morals of the Gil ...

'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 work, unfinished at the time of her death in 1937 and published in that form in 1938. Whar ...

'', 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 college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States. It is the oldest member of the h ...

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

Ivan Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev ( ; rus, links=no, Иван Сергеевич ТургеневIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; – ) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poe ...

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

parlor game A parlour or parlor game is a group game played indoors, named so as they were often played in a parlour. These games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes in the United Kingdom and in the United States during the Victorian er ...

played by Turgenev and his friends. Her last major work was ''Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton'' (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover. She graduated from

Simmons College Institutions of learning called Simmons College or Simmons University include: * Simmons University Simmons University (previously Simmons College) is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It was established in 1899 by ...

(BA) and

Harvard University Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...

(PhD).

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* 1922 births 2015 deaths Writers from Boston American women writers Russian–English translators 20th-century American translators 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Mount Holyoke College faculty Simmons University alumni Harvard University alumni {{US-novelist-1920s-stub