McDermott to Present Haines Lecture
Novelist Alice McDermott will give a reading as part of the English Department’s Haines Lecture Series at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 26, in Convocation Hall. All are welcome to attend, and masks are mandatory inside university buildings.
Alice McDermott’s eighth novel, “The Ninth Hour,” was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2017. Her seventh novel, “Someone,” 2013, was a New York Times bestseller, a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Patterson Prize for Fiction, and The Dayton Literary Peace Prize. “Someone” was also long-listed for the National Book Award. Three of her previous novels, “After This,” “At Weddings and Wakes” and “That Night,” were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. “Charming Billy” won the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 and was a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award. “That Night” was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her new collection of essays is “What about the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction.” Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Harpers, Commonweal and elsewhere. She has received the Whiting Writers Award, the Carington Award for Literary Excellence, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for American Literature. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. For more than two decades she was the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the faculty at the Sewanee Writers Conference. McDermott lives with her family outside Washington, D.C.