Alice McDermott
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Alice McDermott (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University's Writer-in-Residence. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY [1967], Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead NY [1971], the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her BA in 1975, and later received her MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1978.
[edit] Works
- The Bigamist's Daughter
- That Night, a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize
- At Weddings and Wakes, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
- Charming Billy (1998), the winner of the 1998 National Book Award.
- Child of My Heart : A Novel (2002)
- After This : A Novel (2006)
She has also published articles in the New York Times and the Washington Post, and received the Whiting Writers' Award in 1987.
[edit] External links
- 1988 audio interview of Alice McDermott by Don Swaim
- 2006 interview at failbetter
- After This Reviews at Metacritic
