# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alice-mcdermott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:39:18.232Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alice-mcdermott"
name: "Alice McDermott"
slug: "alice-mcdermott"
description: "Alice McDermott is an American writer and university professor. She is the author of nine novels and a collection of essays. For her 1998 novel Charming Billy she won an American Book Award and the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Orange Prize. That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and After This were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Absolution was awarded the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award."
tagline: "American writer, novelist, essayist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alice_mcdermott_5190205.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1953-06-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.164524421593831
  historical:           9.467896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/alicemcdermottauthor"
    handle:    "alicemcdermottauthor"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "أليس ماكديرموت"
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    title: "آلیس مک‌درموت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_McDermott"
    title: "Alice McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ऐलिस मैकडरमोट"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Alice McDermott"
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  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_McDermott"
    title: "Alicia McDermott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Макдермотт, Элис"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump