ALICE MCDERMOTT is the author of nine novels, all published by Farah, Straus and Giroux, including Charming Billy, ganador del National Book Award, y That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, y After This, which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the essay collection What About the Baby?: Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, El neoyorquino, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. She lives outside Washington, D.C.