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About Alice McDermott
American writer and university professor
Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. Born in 1953, she is known for nine novels and a collection of essays, and for the literary awards her work has received. Her 1998 novel Charming Billy won both an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, and was also a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution, received the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
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Books by Alice McDermott
After This
2006
Charming Billy
1997