# Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott. Recorded on 2001-09-08. Researchers. Teachers. Alice McDermott, author of short stories and four novels, won the 1998 National Book Award for fiction for "Charming Billy." Of her three previous novels, "A Bigamist's Daughter" was received with wide acclaim; "That Night" 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" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. McDermott, currently writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University, lives in Bethesda, Md.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2001
- By: National Book Festival (u.s.)
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2021692038/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
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