Alice McDermott
Alice McDermott, author of short stories and four novels, won the 1998 National Book Award for fiction for her most recent book, Charming Billy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998). Of her three previous novels, A Bigamist's Daughter (1982) was received with wide acclaim; That Night (1987) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and a Pulitzer Prize; and At Weddings and Wakes (1992) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Ms. McDermott, currently writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
