McDermott, Alice: - Alice Mcdermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour
Someone
After This
Child of My Heart
Charming Billy , winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes-- all published by FSG.
Mcdermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.
C..
Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference.
For more than two decades she was the Richard A.
Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The New Yorker , Harper\'s Magazine , and elsewhere.
That Night , At Weddings and Wakes , and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
McDermott, Alice: - Alice Mcdermott is the author of several novels, including The Ninth Hour
Someone
After This
Child of My Heart
Charming Billy , winner of the 1998 National Book Award; and At Weddings and Wakes-- all published by FSG