Alice McDermott
A three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and National Book Award
winner, author Alice
McDermott has been named to the 2012 Peter and Margaret
D’Angelo Endowed Chair for the Humanities at St. John’s
University.
Ms. McDermott is the second person named to the Chair, which was
established in 2007 by Peter P. D’Angelo ‘78MBA, ‘06HON, and
Margaret La Rosa D’Angelo ‘70Ed. The Chair brings leading authors,
researchers and scholars from various disciplines to St. John’s College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, the University’s oldest
division.
As Chair, Ms. McDermott will serve as a faculty member in the English
Department from March 19 to April 27, 2012. In addition to meeting
with students and professors, she will teach an intensive
fiction-writing workshop for qualified undergraduates and will
deliver two public lectures.
A celebrated author, Ms. McDermott currently serves as the Richard
A. Macksey Professor for Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities
at Johns Hopkins University. Her latest novel, After
This, was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Her
fifth novel, Child
of My Heart, was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection
and was listed among Book Magazine’s “Ten Best Novels of
2002.”
Ms. McDermott’s novels include
A Bigamist’s Daughter, That
Night — a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the
National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
and
At Weddings and Wakes, also nominated for a Pulitzer. In
addition, Charming
Billy won the 1988 National Book Award as well as the
American Book Award.
Ms. McDermott also is the author of numerous articles and short
stories, which have appeared in leading publications such as
The New Yorker, The Atlantic and the New York
Times.