Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952 in New York City) is an American author, best known for her novel Practical Magic which was made into a 1998 film of the same name. Most of her works contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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[edit] Biography
Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Alice Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University, where she received her B.A., and received an M.A. in creative writing from Stanford University, where she was a Mirrielees Fellow. Her first job was at the Doubleday publishing house, which later published two of her novels. Hoffman currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.
She is a mild feminist, she has often been compared to Toni Morrison.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Fiction
- 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 (scheduled for 2007)
[edit] Young fiction
- Fireflies: A Winter's Tale (1999)
- Horsefly (2000)
- Aquamarine (2001)
- Indigo (2002)
- Green Angel (2003)
- Water Tales/Aquamarine & Indigo (2003)
- Moondog (2004) - with Wolfe Martin
- The Foretelling (2005)
- Incantation (2006)
