Name Rosemary Mahoney | Role Fiction writer | |
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Books Down the Nile: Alone in a Fishe, Whoredom in Kimmage, The Singular Pilgrim, A likely story, For the Benefit of Those W | ||
Rosemary Mahoney (born January 28, 1961 Boston) is an American non-fiction writer.
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She grew up in Milton, Massachusetts, and graduated from St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire). She worked briefly for Lillian Hellman.
She has attended Yaddo.
She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, National Geographic Traveler, O Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.
The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China was a New York Times Notable Book in 1990, and Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, was a New York Times Notable book and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994, British writer Jan Morris listed her 2007 Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, as one of the 86 best travel books of all time.
Awards
She was awarded the Charles E. Horman Prize for Fiction Writing as an undergraduate at Harvard College, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a 1994 Whiting Award. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.