Alice Hoffman
출생: March 16, 1952 – New York City, New York, United States
Alice Hoffman is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction and magical realism, often writing about family, love, grief, and survival. Her best-known books include Practical Magic, The Dovekeepers, and Here on Earth. Author of more than 30 books, she has been widely translated, and several works have been adapted for screen.
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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 earned a BA from Adelphi University, then studied at Stanford’s Creative Writing Center on a Mirrielees Fellowship in 1973 and 1974, receiving an MA in creative writing. She later earned an MA from Harvard Divinity School and is listed as a fellow there. The decisive early turn came at Stanford: mentored by Albert J. Guerard and Maclin Bocock Guerard, she wrote Property Of at twenty-one and published it soon after an early short story in Fiction led editor Ted Solotaroff to ask if she had a novel. ((https://alicehoffman.com/about/))
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"Alice Hoffman is wonderful on stories and writing"
— Stephen King
"Alice Hoffman’s The Invisible Hour is a rich, immersive, magical reading experience"
— Kristin Hannah
"Alice Hoffman is a prolific writer with a bent toward the magical and luminous"
— Ploughshares
"Adding new poignance to a story whose ending we already knew, Alice Hoffman has deftly recreated the child Anne Frank"
— Lois Lowry
"I am still reeling from The Dovekeepers—from the history Alice Hoffman illuminates, from the language she uses to bring these women to life"
— Jodi Picoult
"In Alice Hoffman’s literary wonderland, past and present collide; magical landscapes brim with angels and humans"
— Hadassah Magazine
"What a thrill to discover Nathaniel Hawthorne in the pages of Alice Hoffman’s exquisite new novel The Invisible Hour!"
— Megan Marshall
"Alice Hoffman proves with each of her books that fairy tales and fables aren’t just a thing of the past"
— Writer's Digest
"Alice Hoffman has always been a writer interested in monsters and freaks"
— The Washington Post