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Literature

Winter Words: Talk + book signing with Alice McDermott

Join Aspen Words for a talk and book signing with author Alice McDermott.

McDermott is the author of eight novels, including The Ninth Hour, published in 2017. Her seventh novel, Someone, was a New York Times best-seller, a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Patterson Prize for Fiction and The Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Someone also was longlisted for the National Book Award. Three of her previous novels, After This, At Weddings and Wakes, and That Night, were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Charming Bill won the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 and was a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker and elsewhere. She is a professor at Johns Hopkins University.

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Event information
Date
Tue Jan 9, 2018
6:00pm - 7:00pm MDT
Location
Paepcke Auditorium, The Aspen Institute
Aspen, CO