Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn, NY on this day in 1953. She won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1998 for Charming Billy, and was also a Fiction Finalist once previously, in 1987 for That Night. To read appreciations of Charming Billy, visit McDermott’s page on our NBA Fiction Blog.
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