Rosemary Mahoney is an American non-fiction writer. She grew up in Milton, Massachusetts, andgraduated from St. Paul's School . She worked briefly for Lillian Hellman. She has attended Yaddo. 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. 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 is also the recipient of a Whiting Writer’s Award. She is a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.
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