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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 and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. She was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction. McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.
- June 27, 1953 (age 70), Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Oct 27, 2023 · Alice McDermott is rightly celebrated for her granular, nuanced portraits of mid-20th-century life, with a particular focus on Irish Americans. Her fans may be startled, then, to find...
Oct 30, 2023 · McDermott's latest novel, which centers on two American women who meet in Saigon in 1963, explores themes of religion, humility and insistent charitable intervention.
Official website of National Book Award winning American author Alice McDermott. Books include The Ninth Hour, Someone, Charming Billy, After This, That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, The Bigamist's Daughter.
Dec 21, 2023 · December 21, 20234:52 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. By. Elena Burnett. , Courtney Dorning. , Juana Summers. 8-Minute Listen. Playlist. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with author Alice...
An interview with Alice McDermott, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and professor of writing at Johns Hopkins University. She talks about her Catholic upbringing, her writing process, her characters, and her faith. Learn how she discovered her calling to be a writer and how she developed her craft.
Nov 8, 2023 · Alice McDermott’s ninth novel perfectly captures the manner and mood of that era and the constricted lives that women led as “helpmeets” for their husbands. McDermott won the National Book Award for her novel “Charming Billy.”
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