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Novelist to Give Free Reading at Bryn Mawr College
The reading will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11 in Goodhart Hall.
Novelist Alice McDermott will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 11 in the Goodhart Music Room, at 's Goodhart Hall.
The reading is free and open to the public and part of Bryn Mawr's Creative Writing Program Reading Series.
McDermott is the author of six novels: A Bigamist’s Daughter; the Pulitzer Prize-finalists That Night, At Weddings and Wakes and After This; Child of My Heart; and Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award.
Writing in The New York Times, critic Michiko Kakutani says, “McDermott writes with wisdom and grace, refusing to sentimentalize her characters, even as she forces us to recognize their decency and goodness.”
The winner of a Whiting Award, McDermott teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Special thanks to Matt Gray at Bryn Mawr College for providing this story.
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