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* {{cite book <!--|author=McDermott, Alice |authormask= --> |title=A bigamist's daughter |location=New York |publisher=Random House |year=1982 |<!--isbn=0394522028-->}} |
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* {{cite book|title=[[That Night (novel)|That Night]]| |
* {{cite book|title=[[That Night (novel)|That Night]]||date=1987 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-2974-5}}; reprint 21 February 2005 |
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* {{cite book|title=At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILdOSe-5tD8C|date=1992 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-2962-2}}; reprint 24 November 2009 |
* {{cite book|title=At Weddings and Wakes: A Novel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ILdOSe-5tD8C|date=1992 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-2962-2}}; reprint 24 November 2009 |
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* {{cite book|title=[[Charming Billy]]| |
* {{cite book|title=[[Charming Billy]]||date=1998 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-1-4299-2970-7}}; reprint 24 November 2009 |
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* ''Child of My Heart'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002; 2013, {{ISBN|9781408806678}} |
* ''Child of My Heart'', Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002; 2013, {{ISBN|9781408806678}} |
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* {{cite book|title=[[After This]]| |
* {{cite book|title=[[After This]]||date=2006 |publisher=Random House Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-440-33730-0}}; reprint 25 September 2007 |
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* {{cite book|title=[[Someone (book)|Someone]]| |
* {{cite book|title=[[Someone (book)|Someone]]||date=10 September 2013|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-28109-0}} |
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* ''The Ninth Hour: A Novel''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 19 September 2017. {{ISBN|9780374280147}} |
* ''The Ninth Hour: A Novel''. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 19 September 2017. {{ISBN|9780374280147}} |
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Revision as of 06:38, 26 July 2019
Alice McDermott | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York, United States | June 27, 1953
Occupation | novelist, Essayist |
Nationality | American |
Genre | Literary fiction |
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[1] and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2]
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.
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. 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.
Ms. 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."[3]
Awards and honors
- That Night (1987) — finalist for the National Book Award,[4] the Pen/Faulkner Award, and the Pulitzer Prize[5]
- At Weddings and Wakes (1992) — finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[5]
- 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 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- After This (2006) — finalist for the Pulitzer Prize[5]
- 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.
- 2013 Inducted into the New York Writers Hall of Fame.
- 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award fiction shortlist for Someone[6][7]
- 2014 Finalist for Dayton Literary Peace Prize.[8]
- 2018 Prix Femina étranger for La Neuvième Heure, translation of The Ninth Hour
Bibliography
Novels
- A bigamist's daughter. New York: Random House. 1982.
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- Charming Billy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 1998. ISBN 978-1-4299-2970-7.
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- After This. Random House Publishing Group. 2006. ISBN 978-0-440-33730-0.
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Short fiction
- Stories[9]
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected | Notes |
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Someone | 2012 | "Someone". The New Yorker. 87 (46): 60–66. January 30, 2012. | ||
These short, dark days | 2015 | "These short, dark days". The New Yorker. 91 (24): 58–65. August 24, 2015. |
Notes
- ^ 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.) - ^ 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.
- ^ Kirsten Reach (January 14, 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Books. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. January 14, 2014. Retrieved January 14, 2014.
- ^ "2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Finalists." http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2014-finalists.htm
- ^ Short stories unless otherwise noted.
External links
Alice McDermott's official website
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- 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
- 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 Roman Catholics
- American people of Irish descent
- American women novelists
- Catholics from New York (state)
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- National Book Award winners
- Novelists from Maryland
- Novelists from New York (state)
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
- People from Elmont, New York
- People from Hempstead (town), New York
- State University of New York at Oswego alumni
- The New Yorker people
- Writers from Brooklyn