Alice LaPlante





Alice LaPlante

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Alice LaPlante is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer. She also teaches in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. Her fiction has been widely published in Epoch, Southwestern Review, and other literary journals. Alice is the author of five books, including the LA Times bestseller Method and Madness: The Making of a Story (W.W. Norton 2009). Her latest book, the novel Turn of Mind, will be published by Grove Atlantic in 2011. She lives with her family in Northern California.

Turn of Mind won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for 2011


Average rating: 3.67 · 4,008 ratings · 1,052 reviews · 7 distinct works
Turn of Mind
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 3,847 ratings — published 2011 — 19 editions
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The Making of a Story: A No...
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Method and Madness: The Mak...
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“Yes, Halloween excites me. That whole time of year, autumn, I find exhilarating. A passionate season. The others are so bland. In the fall, you see opportunities for change. Real change. Possibilities present themselves. None of the renewal and redemption cliches of spring. No. Something darker and more primal and more important than that.”
Alice LaPlante

“the secret of happy marriage: not honesty, not forgiveness, but acceptance that is a kind of respect for the other's right to make mistakes.”
Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind

“You don't get emotional over a hand. A hand is a collection of thoughts.”
Alice LaPlante, Turn of Mind

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