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]

Alice McDermott
Born	(1953-06-27) June 27, 1953 (age 69) Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, essayist
Genre	Literary fiction

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.

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. Ms. 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.

Ms. 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."[3]

Awards and honors

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• That Night (1987) — finalist for the National Book Award,[4] the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize[5]
• At Weddings and Wakes (1992) — finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[5]
• Charming Billy (1998) — winner of an American Book Award (1999)[1] and the National Book Award[2]
• Child of My Heart : A Novel (2002) — nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
• After This (2006) — finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[5]
• Someone (2013) - longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award Fiction
• 1987 Whiting Award
• In 2010 she received the Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature award which is given annually in Rockville Maryland, the city where Fitzgerald, his wife, and his daughter are buried as part of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival.
• 2013 Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame.
• 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award fiction shortlist for Someone[6][7]
• 2014 Finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize.[8]
• 2018 Prix Femina étranger for La Neuvième Heure, translation of The Ninth Hour

Bibliography

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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.
• What About the Baby? 17 August 2021. ISBN 9780374130626.[9][10]

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alice McDermott.

Alice McDermott's official website

• Works by or about Alice McDermott in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• After This Reviews at Metacritic
• Publisher's bio of Alice McDermott at BookBrowse.com
• Alice McDermott at Library of Congress Authorities — with 14 catalog records
• Whiting Foundation Profile
• Alice McDermott, The Art of Fiction No. 244, Paris Review, Fall 2019

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