Editing Andrew McCarthy (section)

==Writing==
McCarthy began travel writing and served as an Editor at Large at ''[[National Geographic Traveler]]'' magazine.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20161004162957/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/about-us-masthead/ Traveler Staff and Contributors]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Andrew-McCarthy-talks-Pretty-In-Pink-wig--travel-writing:-9-facts/8833252 |title=Andrew McCarthy talks Pretty In Pink |access-date=August 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004213621/http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Andrew-McCarthy-talks-Pretty-In-Pink-wig--travel-writing:-9-facts/8833252 |archive-date=October 4, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2010, McCarthy was escorted out of an underground church in [[Lalibela]], Ethiopia, for entering the site without documentation. He had been in the church on assignment for the travel magazine ''[[Afar (magazine)|Afar]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Nudd|first=Tim|date=8 February 2010|title=''Lipstick Jungle'' Star Andrew McCarthy Detained in Ethiopia|url=https://people.com/celebrity/lipstick-jungle-star-andrew-mccarthy-detained-in-ethiopia/|website=People|language=EN}}</ref> McCarthy's book ''The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down'' was published in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Strayed|first=Cheryl|date=21 September 2012|title=Where Is He Now?|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/books/review/the-longest-way-home-by-andrew-mccarthy.html|access-date=19 December 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

In February 2015, ''National Geographic'' published McCarthy's account, titled "A Song for Ireland", of his return to the house in the [[townland]] of Lacka West in the parish of [[Duagh]] in County Kerry in Ireland from which his great-grandfather John McCarthy had emigrated in the late 1800s.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McCarthy|first=Andrew|date=2 February 2015|title=A Song for Ireland -- National Geographic Traveler|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/a-song-for-ireland/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909095754/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/a-song-for-ireland/|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 9, 2017|access-date=19 December 2020|website=National Geographic|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=February 6, 2015|title=Hollywood star discovers he's from Kerry and not Cork after supporting Cork all his life!'|work=evoke.ie|url=http://www.evoke.ie/showbiz/andrew-mccarthy-ireland-roots|url-status=dead|access-date=August 5, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306110113/http://www.evoke.ie/showbiz/andrew-mccarthy-ireland-roots|archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref>

McCarthy has received several awards from SATW (Society of American Travel Writers), including Travel Journalist of the Year in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Past Winners SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Competition|url=http://www.satwf.com/past-winners-satw-foundation-lowell-thomas-competi/2010-satw-foundation-lowell-thomas-travel-journali|access-date=19 December 2020|website=Society of American Travel Writers|archive-date=September 22, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922113855/http://www.satwf.com/past-winners-satw-foundation-lowell-thomas-competi/2010-satw-foundation-lowell-thomas-travel-journali|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2017, [[Algonquin Books]] published McCarthy's [[Young adult fiction|YA]] novel, ''Just Fly Away''.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Hong|first=Catherine|date=2017-07-12|title=Summer Y.A. Escapes from Sarah Dessen, Andrew McCarthy and More|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/12/books/review/summer-ya-escapes-from-sarah-dessen-andrew-mccarthy-and-more.html|access-date=2020-12-19|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The novel became a ''New York Times'' bestseller.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Just Fly Away|url=https://www.workman.com/products/just-fly-away|access-date=2020-12-19|website=Workman Publishing|language=en-US}}</ref>

McCarthy's memoir about his life and career in the 1980s, titled ''Brat: An '80s Story'', was released in May 2021 by [[Grand Central Publishing]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Gillette|first=Sam|date=10 November 2020|title=''Pretty in Pink'' Star Turned Director Andrew McCarthy Revisits the '80s with Memoir ''Brat''|url=https://people.com/movies/andrew-mccarthy-pretty-in-pink-looks-back-at-the-80s-with-his-memoir-brat/|access-date=19 December 2020|website=People|language=EN}}</ref>

In 2023, [[Grand Central Publishing]] released ''Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain'', McCarthy's memoir about walking the [[Camino de Santiago]] with his son [[Sam McCarthy (actor)|Sam]] in the summer of 2021.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andrew-mccarthy/walking-with-sam/9781538709207/ |title=Walking with Sam |date=2022-09-12 |isbn=978-1-5387-0920-7 |language=en-US |last1=McCarthy |first1=Andrew |publisher=Grand Central }}</ref>