https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Frank_McCourt_%26_Alice_McDermott_(2008)&feed=atom&action=historyFrank McCourt & Alice McDermott (2008) - Revision history2024-03-29T14:12:59ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.39.6https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/_mw/index.php?title=Frank_McCourt_%26_Alice_McDermott_(2008)&diff=34311&oldid=prevDanicaZielinski at 15:33, 17 August 20202020-08-17T15:33:05Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Frank McCourt''' (1930–2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, ''Angela’s Ashes'', won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Frank McCourt''' (1930–2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, ''Angela’s Ashes'', won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Alice McDermott’s''' eighth novel, ''The Ninth Hour'', was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2017. Her seventh novel, ''Someone'', 2013, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller, 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'' was also long-listed 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 Billy'' won the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 and was a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award. '' That Night'' was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Harpers'', ''Commonweal'' and elsewhere. She has received the Whiting Writers Award, the Carington Award for Literary Excellence, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for American Literature. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Alice McDermott’s''' eighth novel, ''The Ninth Hour'', was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2017. Her seventh novel, ''Someone'', 2013, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller, 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'' was also long-listed 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 Billy'' won the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 and was a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award. '' That Night'' was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Harpers'', ''Commonweal'' and elsewhere. She has received the Whiting Writers Award, the Carington Award for Literary Excellence, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for American Literature. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. </div></td></tr>
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'''Frank McCourt''' (1930–2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. His first book, ''Angela’s Ashes'', won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Award. In 2006, he won the prestigious Ellis Island Family Heritage Award for Exemplary Service in the Field of the Arts and the United Federation of Teachers John Dewey Award for Excellence in Education.<br />
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'''Alice McDermott’s''' eighth novel, ''The Ninth Hour'', was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in September 2017. Her seventh novel, ''Someone'', 2013, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller, 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'' was also long-listed 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 Billy'' won the National Book Award for fiction in 1998 and was a finalist for the Dublin IMPAC Award. '' That Night'' was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her stories, essays and reviews have appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Harpers'', ''Commonweal'' and elsewhere. She has received the Whiting Writers Award, the Carington Award for Literary Excellence, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for American Literature. In 2013, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. She is the Richard A. Macksey Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. </div>DanicaZielinski