Rosemary Mahoney
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Rosemary Mahoney (born January 28, 1961
Mahoney grew up in
Mahoney has been awarded numerous awards for her writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Whiting Writers Award, a nomination for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, and Harvard's Charles Edmund Horman Prize for creative writing. She is the author of six books of non-fiction: The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China, a New York Times Notable Book; Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman; The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground; Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff, and For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind.
Her travelogue, Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, was among the National Book Critics' Circle's Best Books of 2007 and was selected by writer
Mahoney has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, the London Observer, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times, National Geographic Traveler, O, The Oprah Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times Magazine.
Awards
· Guggenheim Fellowship [4]
· Whiting Writer's Award
· National Book Critics' Circle Award Nomination
· Freedom Forum Fellowship, Corporation of Yaddo
· National Endowment for the Arts Grant
· Charles Edmund Horman Prize for Creative Writing, Harvard College
· Transatlantic Review Award
Works
- The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China. Fawcett Columbine. 1990. ISBN 978-0618035496)
- Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age. Houghton Mifflin, 1993. ISBN 978-0-395-60201-0.
- A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman. Doubleday, 1998. ISBN 978-0-385-47793-2.
- The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2004. ISBN 978-0-618-44665-0.
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- Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff. Hachette. 2007. ISBN 978-0-316-10745-7.
- For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind. Little, Brown. 2014. ISBN 978-0-316-04342-7.
References
- ^ ALEX WITCHEL (December 21, 1998). "AT LUNCH WITH: ROSEMARY MAHONEY; Reverberations From a Devastated Dream". New York Times.
- ^ "The 86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time". CNTraveler. August 8, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
- ^ "Fifteen Yaddo Artists Win Guggenheims". yaddo.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14.
- ^ "Rosemary Mahoney - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-04-16.
External links
- https://passionpassport.com/interview-with-rosemary-mahoney/
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- Irish Central https://www.irishcentral.com/opinion/others/rosemary-mahoney-irish-writer#.Wx1uWTuN4Ct.twitter
- https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/05/books/review/Fugard-t.html
- "Alone on the eternal Nile". The Guardian. 16 December 2007.
- Rosemary Mahoney - Hachette Book Group USA
- https://www.rosemarymahoney.net/ Author's Website
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Fodor's https://www.fodors.com/news/arts-culture/these-are-the-books-that-have-inspired-our-readers-to-travel