Rosemary Mahoney

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Rosemary Mahoney

Rosemary Mahoney (born January 28, 1961 Boston) is an American non-fiction writer.

She grew up in Milton, Massachusetts, and graduated from St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire). She worked briefly for Lillian Hellman.[1]

She has attended Yaddo.[2]

She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, National Geographic Traveler, O Magazine, and the New York Times Magazine.

The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China was a New York Times Notable Book in 1990, and Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, was a New York Times Notable book and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994, British writer Jan Morris listed her 2007 Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman’s Skiff, as one of the 86 best travel books of all time.

Awards

She was awarded the Charles E. Horman Prize for Fiction Writing as an undergraduate at Harvard College, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and a 1994 Whiting Award. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.[3]

Works

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  • 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, The Singular Pilgrim, Doubleday, 1998, ISBN 978-0-385-47793-2
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References

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  2. http://yaddo.org/yaddo/news.shtml?story_id=%7B520F35A7-7384-4670-B7A9-195D06677866%7D
  3. http://www.gf.org/fellows/17061-rosemary-mahoney

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