Alice McDermott
American writer, novelist, essayist (born 1953) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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[1] and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2] She was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction.[3]
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Born | (1953-06-27) June 27, 1953 (age 70) 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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McDermott is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities.