Alice Sebold
Alice Sebold's first two books were shaped out of the violence she suffered as a college student at Syracuse University. While a freshman, she was brutally beaten and raped. A police officer told her she was lucky to be alive as a previous recent victim in that same place had been raped and then dismembered.
Alice Sebold took several months to recover, but when she returned to campus, she saw her attacker and was able to lead the police to him.
More than a decade later, after earning her degrees, living in a writer's commune, and going through what she describes as a wild stage in which she used heroin recreationally, she returned to her story. Her first book was a non-fiction account of her rape and the second book was an uplifting fiction book that captured the imagination of readers across the country.
The novel won the Bram Stoker award for best first novel and an American Booksellers Association Book of the Year award. It met with wide critical acclaim. Peter Jackson bought the film rights to the story and is making a film that will be released in 2008.
Alice Sebold is married to writer Glen David Gold and continues to write.
Alice Sebold Bibliography
| Lucky | The Almost Moon |
| The Lovely Bones |
