Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman has spread her net wide across the realms of fiction, producing novels that range from a reworking of classic themes to stories about AIDS to dark fantasies to children's books (including a picture book that she wrote with her son).

Born in New York in 1952, Hoffman grew up in Long Island. She went to college at Adelphi University and then Stanford University Creative Writing Center. It was while at Stanford, at age 21, that her first novel was published by Farrar Straus and Giroux.

Her work has garnered numerous recognitions, including being selected as an Oprah Book Club Choice. Another of her novels, Practical Magic, was made into a Warner film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. She was also the screenwriter for Independence Day, the 1983 drama starring Kathleen Quinlan and Diane Weist, not the science fiction film of a decade later. Hoffman has also donated all of the proceeds from one of her books to create a breast cancer center outside Boston.

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