Order of Alice McDermott Books

Alice McDermott is an American novelist and serves as the Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. Throughout her career, she has authored several novels, including "Charming Billy," which received the US National Book Award for Fiction and an American Book Award. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended the State University of New York at Oswego, where she earned her bachelor's degree, and later pursued her MA at the University of New Hampshire. She taught at UCSD and American University before joining Johns Hopkins. McDermott is married to a neuroscientist and has three children, with whom she resides outside of Washington, DC.