Alice McDermott
Autor/a de Charming Billy
Sobre l'autor
Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 27, 1953. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1975 and an M.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. After graduating college, she got a job reading unsolicited manuscripts for Redbook magazine and did mostra'n més some freelance reading for Esquire. She has taught writing at American University, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of California at San Diego. Currently, she is the Writing Seminars Professor of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Department. Her short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Seventeen, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has written several novels including A Bigamist's Daughter, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, After This, Someone, and The Ninth Hour. That Night was made into a film starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis in 1992. She has won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 for Charming Billy, a Whiting Writers Award, and the 2008 Corrington Award for Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Alice McDermott
These short, dark days 2 exemplars
Post 2 exemplars
Enough [short story] — Autor — 1 exemplars
McDermott, Alice Archive 1 exemplars
Obres associades
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Col·laborador — 64 exemplars
Selected Shorts: Food Fictions (Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story) (2007) — Col·laborador — 11 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- McDermott, Alice
- Data de naixement
- 1953-06-27
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
Bethesda, Maryland, USA - Educació
- St. Boniface School, Elmont, Long Island, New York, USA (1967)
Sacred Heart Academy, Hempstead New York, USA (1971)
State University of New York, Oswego (BA|1975)
University of New Hampshire (MA | 1978) - Professions
- novelist
professor - Relacions
- Turco, Lewis (teacher)
- Organitzacions
- University of California, San Diego
American University - Premis i honors
- Whiting Writers' Award (1987)
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2010) - Agent
- Harriet Wasserman (Harriet Wasserman Literary Agency)
- Biografia breu
- 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
Membres
Converses
novel, 50s-60s era, family, four kids? Catholic, one son dies in Vietnam a Name that Book (novembre 2016)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 15
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 7,406
- Popularitat
- #3,299
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 259
- ISBN
- 196
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 21
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