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{{short description|American writer, novelist, essayist (born 1953)}}

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| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, U.S.| death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, essayistState University of New York, Oswego (Bachelor of Arts>BA)University of New Hampshire (MA)| genre = Literary fictionweblink}}}}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. She was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.WEB, 2024-02-06, James McBride, Alice McDermott among authors on PEN/Faulkner award longlist,weblink 2024-03-08, AP News, en, 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.(File:Alice McDermott (49534724946).jpg|thumb|McDermott (left) speaking in 2020|left)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."Boston College Magazine article by her

Awards and honors

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• That Night (1987) â€“ finalist for the National Book Award,

"National Book Awards â€“ 1987". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize

• At Weddings and Wakes (1992) â€“ finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
• Charming Billy (1998) â€“ winner of an American Book Award (1999)WEB, American Booksellers Association, The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012], 2013,weblink BookWeb, 1999 [...] Charming Billy, Alice McDermott, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130313174235weblink">weblink March 13, 2013, September 25, 2013, and the National Book Award

"National Book Awards â€“ 1998". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27. (With essays by Alice Elliott Dark and Katie McDonough from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)

• (Child of My Heart : A Novel) (2002) â€“ nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
• After This (2006) â€“ finalist for the Pulitzer Prize

"Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-27.

• Someone (2013) â€“ 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.F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
• 2013  â€“ inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame.
• 2014  â€“ National Book Critics Circle Award fiction shortlist for SomeoneWEB,weblink NBCC finalists announced, Melville House Books, Kirsten Reach, January 14, 2014, January 14, 2014, January 8, 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170108161918weblink">weblink dead, WEB,weblink Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013, National Book Critics Circle, January 14, 2014, January 14, 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140115014055weblink">weblink January 15, 2014, dead,
• 2014  â€“ finalist for Dayton Literary Peace PrizeWEB, 2014-09-07, Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2014 Award Finalists,weblink 2021-01-27,weblink 2014-09-07,
• 2018 â€“ Prix Femina étranger for La Neuvième Heure, translation of The Ninth Hour

Bibliography

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Novels

• BOOK, A Bigamist's Daughter,weblink registration, New York, Random House, 1982,
• BOOK, That Night, 1987, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-1-4299-2974-5, That Night (novel), ; reprint 21 February 2005
• BOOK, At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel,weblink 1992, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-1-4299-2962-2, ; reprint 24 November 2009
• BOOK, Charming Billy, 1998, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-1-4299-2970-7, Charming Billy, ; reprint 24 November 2009
• Child of My Heart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002; 2013, {{ISBN|9781408806678}}
• BOOK, After This, 2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-0-440-33730-0, After This, ; reprint 25 September 2007
• BOOK, Someone, 10 September 2013, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 978-0-374-28109-0, Someone (McDermott novel),
• The Ninth Hour: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 19 September 2017. {{ISBN|9780374280147}}.
• Absolution: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 31 October 2023. ISBN 978-0374610487. WEB, Patrick, Bethanne, 2023-11-07, 'I look for the scary story': How Alice McDermott turned the Vietnam War novel inside out,weblink 2024-03-08, Los Angeles Times, en-US,

Essays

• What About the Baby? Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 17 August 2021. {{ISBN|9780374130626}}.WEB, McDermott, Alice, Books,weblink live, 1 July 2021, Alice McDermott,weblink 2021-07-09, WEB, What About the Baby?,weblink live, 1 July 2021, Macmillan Publishers,weblink 2021-06-03,

Notes

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External links

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• Alice McDermott's official website
• weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080125101011weblink">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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