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American Literature, Volume 1 (Penguin Academics Series) Plus NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card Package

American Literature, Volume 1 (Penguin Academics Series) Plus NEW MyLiteratureLab -- Access Card Package( )
Author: Cain, William E.
McDermott, Alice
Newman, Lance E.
Wyss, Hilary E.
ISBN:978-0-321-91669-3
Publication Date:Aug 2013
Publisher:Pearson Education
Book Format:Mixed media product
List Price:USD $64.47
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Book Details
Pages:1500
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.4 x 9.1 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:1.896 Pounds
Author Biography
Cain, William E. (Author)
Alice McDermott was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 27, 1953. She received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Oswego in 1975 and an M.A. from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. After graduating college, she got a job reading unsolicited manuscripts for Redbook magazine and did some freelance reading for Esquire. She has taught writing at American University, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of California at San Diego. Currently, she is the Writing Seminars Professor of the Johns Hopkins University Writing Department.

Her short stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including Ms., Redbook, Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, Seventeen, the New York Times and the Washington Post. She has written several novels including A Bigamist's Daughter, At Weddings and Wakes, Child of My Heart, After This, Someone, and The Ninth Hour. That Night was made into a film starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis in 1992. She has won several awards including the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 for Charming Billy, a Whiting Writers Award, and the 2008 Corrington Award for Literature.

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