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.
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. 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."
Awards and honors
That Night (1987) – finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize
At Weddings and Wakes (1992) – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Charming Billy (1998) – winner of an American Book Award (1999) and the National Book Award
Child of My Heart : A Novel (2002) – nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
After This (2006) – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
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
2014 – finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize
2018 – Prix Femina étranger for La Neuvième Heure, translation of The Ninth Hour
Bibliography
Novels
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Child of My Heart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002; 2013,
; reprint 25 September 2007
The Ninth Hour: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 19 September 2017. .
Absolution: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 31 October 2023. ISBN 978-0374610487.
Essays
What About the Baby? Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 17 August 2021. .
Notes
External links
Alice McDermott's official website
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
1953 births
Living people
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American novelists
21st-century American women writers
American Book Award winners
American women novelists
Catholics from New York (state)
Johns Hopkins University faculty
National Book Award winners
Novelists from Maryland
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
People from Elmont, New York
People from Hempstead, New York
Place of birth missing (living people)
State University of New York at Oswego alumni
The New Yorker people
Writers from Brooklyn
Novelists from New York City
Prix Femina Étranger winners
American women academics