Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Use mdy datesTemplate:Infobox writer Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award<ref name="ABA">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction<ref name="nba1998"> {{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
From 2002 to 2019, McDermott was the Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.
LifeEdit
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.
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She is the recipient of several honorary degrees including Boston College, Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies, University of New Hampshire, SUNY Oswego, Mount St. Mary's University, La Salle University, Regis College, The College of the Holly Cross.
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. In 2012 she was the D'Angelo Scholar-in-Residence, St. John's University. From 2002 to 2019, McDermott was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. For two decades McDermott served on the faculty of Sewanee Writers Conference. Her short stories have appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Commonweal, The Sewanee Review, Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Good Housekeeping, 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 grown children. She is Catholic, though she once deemed herself "not a very good Catholic."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Awards and honorsEdit
Literary awardsEdit
HonorsEdit
- 1987 – Whiting Award
- 2004 – Gaudium Prize
- 2008 – Corrington Award for Literature
- 2010 – Fitzgerald Prize for Literary Excellence
- 2013 – Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame
- 2015 – Mary McCarthy Award, Bard College
- 2019 – Seamus Heaney Award for Literature, Glucksman Ireland House
- 2024 – Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2024 – Recipient of the Eugene O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award
Selected worksEdit
NovelsEdit
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EssaysEdit
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ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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- Alice McDermott on Goodreads
- Biography at BookBrowse.com
- Bibliography at FantasticFiction
- Alice McDermott at Library of Congress Authorities — with 14 catalog records
- Alice McDermott, The Art of Fiction No. 244, Paris Review, Fall 2019
Publisher profilesEdit
- Profile at Commonweal
- Profile at The Sewanee Review
- Profile at Whiting Foundation
ReviewsEdit
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