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Alice McDermott

US · b. 1953

3 shortlist appearances

Award History

Award-Winning Books

About Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott is an American novelist born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953. She was shortlisted for the NBCC Fiction Award in 2017 for *The Ninth Hour*, a novel about a community of nuns in Depression-era Brooklyn. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and her novel *Charming Billy* won the National Book Award in 1998.

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