Alice McDermott, National Book Award winning novelist

Alice McDermott
Thursday, April 11, 2024
University at Albany
Moderated by NYS Writers Institute Assistant Director Mark Koplik
Alice McDermott, one of the leading novelists of her generation, is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Absolution (2023), about the lives of American women on the margins of the Vietnam War. Wives have appeared as minor characters in Vietnam War fiction, but in Absolution they take center stage.
In 2013, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University.
​Novelist Ann Patchett said, “Absolution is one of the finest contemporary novels I've read. It is a moral masterpiece." McDermott is the author of nine novels, including Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This - all three of them finalists for the Pulitzer Prize.
Cosponsored by the UAlbany English Department’s Creative Writing Program and Young Writers Project.