Alice Hoffman Reviews

Alice Hoffman grew up on Long Island and was born in New York City on March 16, 1952. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she got a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, and received a BA, which she attended receiving an MA in creative writing. She lives in Boston and New York.

Hoffman's first novel, Property Of, has been written at the age of twenty five, while she had been studying at Stanford, and released shortly afterwards by Farrar Straus and Giroux. She's her mentor, professor and author Albert J. Guerard, along with his wife, the writer Maclin Bocock Guerard, for helping her to publish her first short story from the magazine Fiction. Editor Ted Solotaroff subsequently contacted her to ask if she had a novel, at which point she immediately began to write what was to become Property Of, a part of which had been published in Mr. Solotaroff's magazine, American Review.

Considering that remarkable beginning, Alice Hoffman has turned into one of the most distinguished novelists. She's published two books of short fiction, a total of two novels, and eight novels for children and young adults. Her novel, Here on Earthhas been a reworking of a Few of the topics of Emily Bronte's masterpiece Wuthering Heights. Practical Magic was created starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Her publication, At Risk, which concerns a family coping with AIDS, can be located on the reading lists of schools, universities and schools. Her improvement from Local Girls, a collection of inter-related fictions about love and loss in Long Island, was given to help make the Hoffman (Women's Cancer) Center at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. Blackbird House is a publication of stories. Hoffman books include Ind and Aquamarine

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