Novelist Alice McDermott, 2012 D’Angelo Chair, to Lecture in April

Novelist Alice McDermott, 2012 D’Angelo Chair, to Lecture in April

Join us as author Alice McDermott, a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and National Book Award winner, explores the relationship between spirituality and literature in a lecture entitled “Faith and Literature” at St. John’s University in April.

McDermott is the University’s 2012 Peter and Margaret D’Angelo Endowed Chair for the Humanities. Sponsored by St. John’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, her lecture takes place at both the Queens and Staten Island campuses:

Queens campus
Monday, 7 p.m., April 2
Rm. 416 A and B, D’Angelo Center

Staten Island campus
Monday, 7 p.m., April 16
Kiernan Suite, Kelleher Center
(A desert reception follows lectures.)

Through her books and articles, McDermott has earned a reputation as the premier chronicler of the ordinary lives of Irish Catholic New Yorkers. Her first novel, A Bigamists' Daughter, was published to wide acclaim in 1982.

McDermott’s latest work, After This, was a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. Her fifth novel, Child of My Heart, was a Book-of-the-Month Club main selection and was listed among Book Magazine’s “Ten Best Novels of 2002.”

She is currently working on her next novel, Someone, an excerpt of which appeared in the January 30 issue of The New Yorker.