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Alice Hoffman (1952 - )
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I love Alice Hoffman. Her writing just flows from the page, and has such a wandering, meandering, dreamy, mesmerizing quality. My favorite of hers is Seventh Heaven. About a quarter of the way into this book, I paused in my reading because my head was filled with the thought “God this is so good! I love her writing!” My least favorite is At Risk, which in my opinion is a departure from her usual fare, having none of those qualities I mentioned above. If I'd read it first, I might have liked it better, but it was so totally not what I had come to expect from this author and so I was disappointed in it.
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Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Her 2000 novel The River King was made into a 2005 film starring Edward Burns and Jennifer Ehle. Her 2001 novel Aquamarine was made into a 2006 film Aquamarine (film) starring Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Emma Roberts and Sara Paxton. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
Born in New York City, and raised on Long Island, Hoffman graduated from Adelphi University, where she received her BA, and received an MA in creative writing from Stanford University, where she was an Edith Mirrielees Fellow. Her first job was at the Doubleday publishing house, which later published two of her novels.
She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film Independence Day, starring Kathleen Quinlan and Diane Wiest.
Hoffman currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband. After being treated for breast cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, she helped establish the hospital's Hoffman Breast Center.
Aramena April 4th, 2008 12:01 PM PST