Charming billy - alice mcdermott

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.

That Night , At Weddings and Wakes , and After This were all finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.

Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times , The Washington Post , The New Yorker , Harpers Magazine , and elsewhere.

For more than two decades she was the Richard A.

Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference.

McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.