Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is an American novelist and the Professor of the Humanities at John Hopkin’s University. She has written a number of novels in her career including Charming Billy which won the US National Book Award for Fiction as well as an American Book Award. Born in Brooklyn, New York; McDermott would go on to attend the State University of New York at Oswego where she received her bachelor’s degree before moving on to the University of New Hampshire where she got her MA. She taught at UCSD and American University before settling at John Hopkin’s. She married a neuroscientist and had three children whom she lives with outside of Washington, DC. Get notified when Alice McDermott releases a new book at BookNotification.com.