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Alice McDermott

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Author Alice McDermott’s eight novels have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel Charming Billy won the National Book Award for fiction. Her upcoming novel, Absolution, will be published in November by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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