Irish American Writers & Artists, Inc. (IAW&A) will award celebrated author Alice McDermott with its prestigious 2024 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award on Monday, October 21, 2024, at a cocktail reception and celebration at The Ellington Restaurant, located at 2745 Broadway on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The event begins at 7p.m. In addition to including the opportunity to see and hear from Alice McDermott herself, the event includes food and drink, and a 1-year membership of IAW&A valued at $100.00! Alice McDermott’s latest novel, Absolution, was an instant NY Times bestseller, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and named one of the best books of 2023 by Time, NPR, LA Times, Vogue, Esquire and others. Her eight previous novels have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Kirkus Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Award. Her novel Charming Billy won the National Book Award for fiction. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harpers, The New York Times, Commonweal and elsewhere. Alice McDermott joins IAW&A’s distinguished past Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, including Peter Quinn, Joanie Madden, Malachy McCourt, Patricia Harty, Pete Hamill, Judy Collins, Charlotte Moore and Ciarán O’Reilly, William Kennedy, Phil Donahue, Kate Mulgrew, John Patrick Shanley, Larry Kirwan and Dan Barry. IAW&A's Eugene O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award celebration is a must-attend party for New York's Irish American artistic and creative communities. Of course, we warmly welcome new friends (including non-Irish folks) and members, as well as Ms. McDermott’s numerous readers, to our wonderful event.

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