ALICE HOFFMAN

'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 made into a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.

Contents

Biography

Bibliography

Novels

Young adult novels

Children's books

External links

Biography

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. Hoffman currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two sons.
She is a mild feminist, and she has often been compared to Toni Morrison.

Bibliography

Novels

★ ''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'' (2007)

Young adult novels

★ ''Aquamarine'' (2001)

★ ''Indigo'' (2002)

★ ''Green Angel'' (2003)

★ ''Water Tales: Aquamarine & Indigo'' (omnibus edition) (2003)

★ ''The Foretelling'' (2005)

★ ''Incantation'' (2006)

Children's books

★ ''Fireflies: A Winter's Tale'' (illustrated by Wayne McLoughlin) (1999)

★ ''Horsefly'' (paintings by Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher) (2000)

★ ''Moondog'' (with Wolfe Martin; illustrated by Yumi Heo) (2004)

External links

★ Alice Hoffman's website

★ Audio interview of Alice Hoffman, 1988 by Don Swaim

★ Radio Interview on WFMT's Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman