First Draft: Alice McDermott

From First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Mitzi Rapkin

Alice McDermott is the author of seven novels including National Book Award Winner Charming Billy and three Pulitzer Prize finalists: After This, That Night and At Weddings and Wakes. She is Johns Hopkins University's Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities. She has a BA from SUNY Oswego and an MA from University of New Hampshire. Her new novel is Someone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices