Alice McDermott
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| Born | June 27, 1953 Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Education | State University of New York, Oswego (BA) University of New Hampshire (MA) |
| Genre | Literary fiction |
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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[1] and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2] She was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.[3]
Until 2020, McDermott was the Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.
Life
[edit]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, University of New Hampshire, SUNY Oswego, and Mount St. Mary's University.
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. Until 2020 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 "Harpers", "Commonweal", "The Sewanee Review", 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."[4]
Awards and honors
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- That Night (1987) – finalist for the National Book Award,[5] the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize[6]
- At Weddings and Wakes (1992) – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[6]
- Charming Billy (1998) – winner of an American Book Award (1999)[1] and the National Book Award[2]
- Child of My Heart : A Novel (2002) – nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award
- After This (2006) – finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[6]
- 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.[7]
- 2013 – inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame.
- 2014 – National Book Critics Circle Award fiction shortlist for Someone[8][9]
- 2014 – finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize[10]
- 2018 – Prix Femina étranger for La Neuvième Heure, translation of The Ninth Hour
Bibliography
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Novels
[edit]- A Bigamist's Daughter. New York: Random House. 1982.
- That Night. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1987. ISBN 978-1-4299-2974-5.; reprint 21 February 2005
- At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1992. ISBN 978-1-4299-2962-2.; reprint 24 November 2009
- Charming Billy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1998. ISBN 978-1-4299-2970-7.; reprint 24 November 2009
- Child of My Heart. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002; 2013, ISBN 9781408806678
- After This. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2006. ISBN 978-0-440-33730-0.; reprint 25 September 2007
- Someone. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 10 September 2013. ISBN 978-0-374-28109-0.
- 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. [11]
Essays
[edit]- What About the Baby? Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 17 August 2021. ISBN 9780374130626.[12][13]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b American Booksellers Association (2013). "The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation [1980–2012]". BookWeb. Archived from the original on March 13, 2013. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
1999 [...] Charming Billy, Alice McDermott
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"National Book Awards – 1998". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
(With essays by Alice Elliott Dark and Katie McDonough from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) - ^ "James McBride, Alice McDermott among authors on PEN/Faulkner award longlist". AP News. 2024-02-06. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
- ^ Boston College Magazine article by her
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1987". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ a b c "Fiction". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-03-27.
- ^ F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival
- ^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Books. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Archived from the original on January 15, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Dayton Literary Peace Prize - 2014 Award Finalists". 2014-09-07. Archived from the original on 2014-09-07. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- ^ Patrick, Bethanne (2023-11-07). "'I look for the scary story': How Alice McDermott turned the Vietnam War novel inside out". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-03-08.
- ^ McDermott, Alice. "Books". Alice McDermott. Archived from the original on 2021-07-09. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
- ^ "What About the Baby?". Macmillan Publishers. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 1 July 2021.
External links
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- 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
- 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