Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A Macksey Professor of the Humanities. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY [1967] , Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead NY [1971] , the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her BA in 1975, and later received her MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1978.

She has taught at the UCSD and American University, has been a writer-in-residence at Lynchburg and Hollins Colleges in Virginia, and was lecturer in English at the University of New Hampshire. Her short stories have appeared in Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle,The New Yorker and Seventeen.

The 1987 recipient of a Whiting Writers Award and the 2008 recipient of the Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, Ms. McDermott lives outside Washington, with her husband, a neuroscientist, and three children.

Works

* "A Bigamist's Daughter" (1982)
* "That Night", (1987) a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize
* "At Weddings and Wakes" (1992), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
* "Charming Billy" (1998), the winner of the 1998 National Book Award.
* "" (2002), nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
* "After This" (2006), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

She has also published articles in the "New York Times" and the "Washington Post", and received the Whiting Writers' Award in 1987.

External links

* [http://wiredforbooks.org/alicemcdermott/ 1988 audio interview of Alice McDermott] by Don Swaim
* [http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/mcdermottalice/afterthis After This Reviews] at Metacritic
* [http://www.bookbrowse.com/biographies/index.cfm?author_number=274 publisher's bio of Alice McDermott] at BookBrowse.com


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