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News Release
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Johns Hopkins University
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April 14, 1999
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Robin Rooks
Library Development Office
(410) 516-8327
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National Book Award Recipient Reads at
Hopkins
Alice McDermott, the 1999 National Book Award winner
will give a reading
and discuss her novel Charming Billy at 1 p.m., Sunday,
April 25 in the Schafler
Auditorium of the Bloomberg Center for Physics and Astronomy on
the Johns Hopkins
University's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore.
The event is
sponsored by the Friends of the Johns Hopkins Libraries
Last November, Alice McDermott, a visiting professor in the Writing Seminar at Johns
Hopkins, walked away with the National Book Award for fiction,
defeating Tom Wolfe
and three other contenders. McDermott won the award for her
fourth novel,
Charming Billy, the story of love, loss, and redemption of
an Irish Catholic
man and his family living in Queens, New York. McDermott has
written three other
highly-praised novels, A Bigamist's Daughter (1982);
That Night (1987)
which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book
Award; and At
Weddings and Wakes (1992) which also was a Pulitzer finalist.
A reception and book signing with McDermott will follow the
discussion. The event is
free and open to the public. RSVP encouraged, (410) 516-8327.
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