Alice Hoffman






Alice Hoffman

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born
March 16, 1952

gender
female

place of birth
New York, New York, The United States

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genre
Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, Magical Realism


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Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently lives in Boston and New York.

Hoffman’s first novel, PROPERTY OF, was written at the age of twenty-one, while she was studying at Stanford, and published shortly thereafter by Farrar Straus and Giroux. She credits her mentor, professor and writer Albert J. Guerard, and his wife, the writer Maclin Bocock Guerard, for helping her to publish her first short ...more




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In my new novel The Story Sisters (Shaye Areheart Books) Elv Story creates an imaginary world to help her deal with a childhood trauma that she keeps secret. Stories help her to deal with reality and with her past. In a way, she cannot live without them. 
Each chapter of the novel begins with a piece of what I call Elv's Black Book of Fairy Tales. When added together they complete a psychological... ...more
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avg rating: 3.59 | 32,603 ratings | 4,198 reviews | 52 distinct works | 236 fans
Practical Magic Practical Magic
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.71 — 4,319 ratings — published 1995
21 editions
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Here on Earth Here on Earth
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.41 — 3,832 ratings — published 1997
24 editions
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The Ice Queen The Ice Queen
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.41 — 2,443 ratings — published 2005
15 editions
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The Probable Future The Probable Future
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.72 — 1,823 ratings — published 2003
21 editions
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The Third Angel The Third Angel
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.44 — 1,715 ratings — published 2008
5 editions
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The River King The River King
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.63 — 1,600 ratings — published 2000
25 editions
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Blackbird House Blackbird House
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.72 — 1,359 ratings — published 2004
12 editions
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Turtle Moon Turtle Moon
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.68 — 1,329 ratings — published 1992
17 editions
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Skylight Confessions Skylight Confessions
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.51 — 1,354 ratings — published 2007
12 editions
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Blue Diary Blue Diary
by Alice Hoffman
avg rating 3.46 — 1,248 ratings — published 2001
27 editions
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July 2009, Alice Hoffman
"Siblings can grow up in the same house and live in the same room and experience similar traumas, and still be so different. Parents and children live in separate worlds. To think that you know what your child's life is like, or what your mother's life is like—no matter how close you are—you can never really know." ...More

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"Books may well be the only true magic."
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"Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with."
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"It doesn't matter what people tell you. It doesn't matter what they might say. Sometimes you have to leave home. Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction."
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