Rosemary Mahoney

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.

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.

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.

Works

• The Early Arrival of Dreams: A Year in China. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2003. ISBN 978-0-618-03549-6.
• 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
• The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2004. ISBN 978-0-618-44665-0.
• Down the Nile: alone in a fisherman's skiff. Hachette Inc. 2007. ISBN 978-0-316-10745-7.
• For the Benefit of Those Who See. Little, Brown and Company. 2014. ISBN 978-0-316-04342-7.

External links

• "Alone on the eternal Nile". The Guardian. 16 December 2007.
• Rosemary Mahoney - Hachette Book Group USA
• Author's website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation