 |  | ALICE McDERMOTT is an award-winning novelist and current Richard A. Macksey Professor of Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of A Bigamist’s Daughter (1982), That Night (1987), At Weddings and Wakes (1992), Charming Billy (1998), Child of My Heart (2002), After This (2006), Someone (2013), The Ninth Hour (2017), and, her latest fiction, Absolution (2023). Charming Billy won both the National Book Award and the American Book Award. Three of McDermott’s other works have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and several have been in contention for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among many other literary honors. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and elsewhere. She has received the Whiting Award, Centenary’s Corrington Award for Literary Excellence, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
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