Marion Mainwaring is an American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 writer, translator, and critic.

Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton , was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer.- Early life and marriage:...

's novel The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers

The Buccaneers is the last novel written by Edith Wharton. It was unfinished at the time of her death in 1937, and published in that form in 1938. Wharton's manuscript ends with Lizzy inviting Nan to a house party to which Guy Thwarte has been invited too...

, published in 1993. She earlier assisted R. W. B. Lewis

R. W. B. Lewis

Richard Warrington Baldwin Lewis was an American literary scholar and critic. He gained a wider reputation when he won a 1976 Pulitzer Prize for biography, the first National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and a Bancroft Prize for his biography of Edith Wharton...

 in researching his Pulitzer- and Bancroft-prize-winning 1976 biography of Wharton. A novelist in her own right, she wrote the novel Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and Murder at Midyears (1953). She translated Youth and Age: Three Novellas by Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Turgenev

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His first major publication, a short story collection entitled A Sportsman's Sketches, is a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel Fathers and Sons is regarded as one of the major works of 19th-century...

 and edited The Portrait Game, records of a parlor game

Parlour game

A parlour game is a group game played indoors. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States, these games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes. They were often played in a parlour, hence the name....

 played by Turgenev and his friends. Her most recent work is Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton

William Morton Fullerton

William Morton Fullerton was an American print journalist. He studied at Harvard, the class of 1886. While there, he and fellow classmates began Harvard Magazine...

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

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