Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is an American young-adult and children’s writer and novelist born in New York City and brought up in Long Island, New York. She resides in Boston. She did her Bachelor of Arts from Adelphi University after her high school graduation in 1969. Her grandmother was Russian. Following her passion for creative writing, she completed Master of Arts from the Stanford University where she was a Mirrielees Fellow in the creative writing centre in 1973 and 1974.

At the age of twenty-one, Alice pen down her first story, At The Drive-In, in Volume 3 of the literary magazine fiction while studying at Stanford. Ted Solotaroff, an editor, contacted her when she was writing her first novel, Property Of, published in 1977 by Farrar Straus and Giroux. She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan and Dianne Wiest. Alice helped to establish the Mount Auburn Hospital’s “Hoffman Breast Centre” where she got the treatment for breast cancer.

She is best known for her novel Practical Magic published in 1995, and a movie was also made based on this novel in 1998. Her creations contain irony, magic, and non-standard romances and relationships. She is always in the field of fantasy and magic realism.

Books written by her are Illumination Light, Fortune’s Daughter, White Horses, Angel Landing, The Drowning Season, At Risk, Seventh Heaven, Turtle Moon, Second Nature, The Third Angel, Skylight Confessions, The Ice Queen, Blackbird House, The Probable Future, Blue Diary, The River King, Local Girls, Here on Earth, The Story Sisters, The Red Garden, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Marriage of Opposites. Her young adult novels include Aquamarine, Indigo, Green Angel, Water Tales: Aquamarine & Indigo, The Foretelling, Incantation, Green Witch and, Green Heart.