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American writer, novelist, essayist (born 1953)
Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an
American Book Award
[1] and the U.S.
National Book Award for Fiction .
[2] She was shortlisted for the
PEN/Faulkner award for fiction .
[3]
McDermott is
Johns Hopkins University 's
Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.
Life
McDermott was born in
Brooklyn, New York . She attended St. Boniface School in
Elmont, New York , on Long Island (1967), Sacred Heart Academy in
Hempstead (1971), and the
State University of New York at Oswego , receiving her BA in 1975, and received her MA from the
University of New Hampshire in 1978.
McDermott (left) speaking in 2020
She has taught at
UCSD and
American University , has been a writer-in-residence at
Lynchburg College and
Hollins College in
Virginia , and was lecturer in English at the University of New Hampshire. McDermott is currently the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at
Johns Hopkins University . Her short stories have appeared in
Ms. ,
Redbook ,
Mademoiselle ,
The New Yorker , and
Seventeen . She has also published articles in
The New York Times and
The Washington Post .
McDermott lives outside
Washington, D.C. , with her husband, a
neuroscientist , and three children. She is Catholic, though she once deemed herself "not a very good Catholic."
[4]
Awards and honors
Bibliography
Novels
A Bigamist's Daughter . New York:
Random House . 1982.
That Night .
Farrar, Straus and Giroux . 1987.
ISBN
978-1-4299-2974-5 . ; reprint 21 February 2005
At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1992.
ISBN
978-1-4299-2962-2 . ; reprint 24 November 2009
Charming Billy . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1998.
ISBN
978-1-4299-2970-7 . ; reprint 24 November 2009
Child of My Heart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002; 2013,
ISBN
9781408806678
After This . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006.
ISBN
978-0-440-33730-0 . ; reprint 25 September 2007
Someone . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 10 September 2013.
ISBN
978-0-374-28109-0 .
The Ninth Hour: A Novel . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 19 September 2017.
ISBN
9780374280147 .
Absolution: A Novel . Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 31 October 2023. ISBN 978-0374610487.
[11]
Essays
Notes
^
a
b American Booksellers Association (2013).
"The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012]" . BookWeb . Archived from
the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013 . 1999 [...] Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
^
a
b
"National Book Awards – 1998" .
National Book Foundation . Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With essays by Alice Elliott Dark and Katie McDonough from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
^
"James McBride, Alice McDermott among authors on PEN/Faulkner award longlist" . AP News . 2024-02-06. Retrieved 2024-03-08 .
^
Boston College Magazine article by her
^
"National Book Awards – 1987" .
National Book Foundation . Retrieved 2012-03-27.
^
a
b
c
"Fiction" . Past winners & finalists by category . The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
^
F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014).
"NBCC finalists announced" .
Melville House Books . Archived from
the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
^
"Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013" . National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Archived from
the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
^
"Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2014 Award Finalists" . 2014-09-07. Archived from
the original on 2014-09-07. Retrieved 2021-01-27 .
^ Patrick, Bethanne (2023-11-07).
" 'I look for the scary story': How Alice McDermott turned the Vietnam War novel inside out" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 2024-03-08 .
^ McDermott, Alice.
"Books" . Alice McDermott .
Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 1 July 2021 .
^
"What About the Baby?" . Macmillan Publishers .
Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 1 July 2021 .
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