After This

Alice McDermott is the author of nine novels, all published by FSG, including Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and That Night, At Weddings and Wakes, and 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, The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. She lives outside Washington, DC.

Martha Plimpton was only a teenager when she gained fame in the 1980s film The Goonies.  Some of her other film credits include Dante’s Inferno, Marvelous, 200 Cigarettes, I Shot Andy Warhol, and Beautiful Girls.  She is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company ensemble and she appeared Off-Broadway in the 2006 Tony Award-winner Shining City.  She has also been nominated for an Emmy. Her television roles include a starring role in Raising Hope and appearances in The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Grey's Anatomy, and 7th Heaven.  Plimpton is also an AudioFile Earphones Award Winner. Her narration credits include Alice McDermott's After This, Kim Edwards's The Memory Keeper's Daughter, and Vera B. Williams's A Chair for My Mother and Other Stories.