Rosemary Mahoney

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Rosemary Mahoney

Rosemary Mahoney (born January 28, 1961 Boston, Massachusetts) is an American writer. She has published six books of narrative non-fiction and numerous magazine articles. For the American Spectator, Christopher Caldwell wrote, "Mahoney has an effortlessly pretty prose style and an uncanny eye . . . . a literary talent that amounts to brilliance."

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Mahoney grew up in Milton, Massachusetts, and graduated from St. Paul's School (Concord, New Hampshire), Harvard College (1983), and Johns Hopkins University (1985). She is a citizen of the United States and Ireland and lives in Greece. She has taught at Hangzhou University in the People's Republic of China and at The Johns Hopkins University. She worked briefly for Lillian Hellman. [1]

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 Jan Morris for Conde Nast Traveller’s list of the 86 best travel books of all time. [2] Mahoney's For the Benefit of Those Who See: Dispatches from the World of the Blind, is based on her experiences teaching at the Braille Without Borders schools for the blind in both Lhasa, Tibet and Kerala, India.

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 .

She has attended Yaddo. [3]

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

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References

  1. ↑ ALEX WITCHEL (December 21, 1998). "AT LUNCH WITH: ROSEMARY MAHONEY; Reverberations From a Devastated Dream". New York Times.
  2. ↑ "The 86 Greatest Travel Books of All Time". CNTraveler. August 8, 2007. Retrieved May 7, 2019.
  3. ↑ "Fifteen Yaddo Artists Win Guggenheims". yaddo.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14.
  4. ↑ "Rosemary Mahoney - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-04-16.
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