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Sep 2006, 288 pages
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Sep 2007, 288 pages
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Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn,
New York in 1953. Her first novel, A
Bigamists' Daughter, was published
to wide acclaim in 1982. That Night
(1987) was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize and the National Book Award. At
Weddings and Wakes (1992) was a
New York Times bestseller.
Charming Billy (1998), won the
National Book Award.
Child of My Heart followed in
2002.
She received her B.A. in 1975 from the
State University of New York at Oswego,
and her M.A. in 1978 from the University
of New Hampshire. She has taught at the
University of California at San Diego
and American University, has been a
writer-in-residence at Lynchburg and
Hollins Colleges in Virginia, and was
lecturer in English at the University of
New Hampshire. Her short stories have
appeared in Ms., Redbook,
Mademoiselle, and Seventeen.
She is currently writer-in-residence at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
She lives outside Washington, with her
husband, a neuroscientist, and three
children.
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