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  <name><![CDATA[Alice McDermott]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[&lt;i&gt;Alice McDermott&lt;/i&gt; (born June 27, 1953) is Johns Hopkins University's Writer-in-Residence. Born in Brooklyn, New York, McDermott attended St. Boniface School in Elmont, Long Island, NY [1967], Sacred Heart Academy in Hempstead NY [1971], the State University of New York at Oswego, receiving her BA in 1975, and later received her MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1978.

She has taught at the UCSD and American University, has been a writer-in-residence at Lynchburg and Hollins Colleges in Virginia, and was lecturer in English at the University of New Hampshire. Her short stories have appeared in Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, and Seventeen.

The 1987 recipient of a Whiting Writers Award, &lt;i&gt;Alice McDermott&lt;/i&gt; lives outside Washington, with her husband, a neuroscientist, and three children.

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  <title><![CDATA[Charming Billy]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Child of My Heart]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[After This]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[That Night]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alice McDermott]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[At Weddings and Wakes]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[A Bigamist's Daughter]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Child of My Heart]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Child of My Heart]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Sheryl Bernstein]]></name>
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