Alice Hoffman
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| Born | March 16, 1952 New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1977–present |
| Genres | Magic realism, fantasy, historical fiction |
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Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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Early life and education [edit]
Alice Hoffman was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, New York. Her grandmother was Russian.[1] She graduated from Adelphi University with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She earned a Master of Arts degree in creative writing from Stanford University, where she was an Edith Mirrielees Fellow.
Career [edit]
Hoffman's first job was at Doubleday, which later published two of her novels.
She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan and Dianne Wiest.
Hoffman is a Scholar at the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center.[2]
Personal life [edit]
She and her husband reside in Boston. After being treated for breast cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, she helped establish the hospital's Hoffman Breast Center.[3]
Bibliography [edit]
Novels [edit]
- Property Of (1977)
- The Drowning Season (1979)
- Angel Landing (1980)
- White Horses (1982)
- Fortune's Daughter (1985)
- Illumination Night (1987)
- At Risk (1988)
- Seventh Heaven (1990)
- Turtle Moon (1992)
- Second Nature (1994)
- Practical Magic (1995)
- Here on Earth (1997)
- Local Girls (1999)
- The River King (2000)
- Blue Diary (2001)
- The Probable Future (2003)
- Blackbird House (2004)
- The Ice Queen (2005)
- Skylight Confessions (2007)
- The Third Angel (2008)
- The Story Sisters (2009)
- The Red Garden (2011)
- The Dovekeepers (2011)
Young adult novels [edit]
- Aquamarine (2001)
- Indigo (2002)
- Green Angel (2003)
- Water Tales: Aquamarine & Indigo (omnibus edition) (2003)
- The Foretelling (2005)
- Incantation (2006)
- Green Witch (2010)
Children's books [edit]
- Fireflies: A Winter's Tale (illustrated by Wayne McLoughlin) (1999)
- Horsefly (paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher) (2000)
- Moondog (with Wolfe Martin; illustrated by Yumi Heo) (2004)
Filmography [edit]
- Independence Day (1983) (writer)
- Practical Magic (1998) (novel)
- Sudbury (2004) (novel, Practical Magic)
- The River King (2005) (novel)
- Aquamarine (2006) (novel)
External links [edit]
- Alice Hoffman's website
- Alice Hoffman at the Internet Movie Database
- Alice Hoffman at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Radio Interview on WFMT's Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman
References [edit]
- ^ Interview with Alice Hoffman
- ^ Hoffman profile at Brandeis University
- ^ The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- American women novelists
- American children's writers
- Writers from Massachusetts
- Writers from New York
- People from Cambridge, Massachusetts
- People from Long Island
- People from New York City
- American people of Russian descent
- Stanford University alumni
- Adelphi University alumni
- 1952 births
- Living people
- Magic realism writers
