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Charming Billy by Alice McDermott — book cover

Award History

AwardYearStatus
National Book Award for Fiction1998Winner

About the Author

Alice McDermott is an American novelist born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953. She was shortlisted for the NBCC Fiction Award in 2017 for *The Ninth Hour*, a novel about a community of nuns in Depression-era Brooklyn. She has also been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and her novel *Charming Billy* won the National Book Award in 1998.

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