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Mar.25.2011
The woman in history who has meant the most to me was a thirteen year-old girl when she began the diary about which John Kennedy wrote, "Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of...
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Jun.01.2009
My new novel The Story Sisters is about the power of stories and the complications of family connections and family mythologies. At the start of each chapter there are pieces of The Black Book of Fairy Tales, a set of stories Elv Story tells to her sisters, Claire and Meg, as a way of giving voice...
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Feb.14.2009
In the new paperback release of my novel THIRD ANGEL there is a new section included that wasn't in the original hardback edition-- the book written by one of the characters, a children's book titled "The Heron's Wife" -- since my character was a writer, it seemed only fair that readers...
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Jul.24.2008
Is Fiction Hazardous to Your Health???
Is it better to read your way through life, or to live it? One writer asked this question recently and seemed to find that the answer was that fiction had in some ways ruined her for real life, and that Wuthering Heights in particular had made real life...
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Apr.08.2008
Although my novels aren’t autobiographical The Third Angel began with a ghostly experience in a London hotel, which you can read about at my website www.alicehoffman.com/blog.
As a writer, I use fiction to escape – I write for the same reasons I read, to enter into another world. But in...
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Mar.26.2008
I’ll be at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival on Sunday April 27th, at UCLA on a panel to discuss magic and literature at 12:00. The panel is called Magic in Everyday Life with authors Aimee Bender, Alex Espinoza, and Yxta Maya Murray.
My individual reading is at 3 of the same day and I’ll be...
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Feb.27.2008
My new book, The Third Angel, is about to be published and I've been thinking about the angels in my own life. In the novel, there is the Angel of Life, the Angel of Death, and the Third Angel, the one who walks among us, often unnoticed, and changes our lives in ways we would have never imagined....
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About Alice
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...
Causes Alice Hoffman Supports
The Hoffman Breast Center of Mount Auburn Hospital.
The Wellness Community.
Rosie's Place.
The Alice Hoffman Young Writer's Retreat of...