Occupation novelist, Essayist Role Writer Name Alice McDermott | Genre Literary fiction Nationality American Movies That Night | |
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Education State University of New York at Oswego, University of New Hampshire Awards National Book Award for Fiction, American Book Awards, Whiting Awards Nominations International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Books Someone, Charming Billy, After This, Child of my heart, That Night Similar People Colum McCann, Craig Bolotin, Matthew Thomas, Elizabeth Strout, Ann Patchett | ||
Author author alice mcdermott
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 and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.
Alice mcdermott 2014 national book festival
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. 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."