Author

Alice McDermott

11 books, mostly literary fiction, for Macmillan Audio and 92nd Street Y, 2006–2027

Alice McDermott is an American novelist and essayist whose writing career began with her 1982 debut, A Bigamist’s Daughter. She has written nine novels and an essay collection, often exploring Irish-American Catholic families, faith, memory, and loss. Her novel Charming Billy won the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction, and several other novels were Pulitzer Prize finalists; she has also taught writing and literature at Johns Hopkins University.