Alice Hoffman
Autor de Practical Magic
Sobre El Autor
Alice Hoffman, an American novelist and screenwriter, was born in New York City on March 16, 1952. She earned a B.A. from Adelphi University in 1973 and an M.A. in creative writing from Stanford University in 1975 before publishing her first novel, Property Of, in 1977. Known for blending realism mostrar más and fantasy in her fiction, she often creates richly detailed characters who live on society's margins and places them in extraordinary situations as she did with At Risk, her 1988 novel about the AIDS crisis. Her other works include The Drowning Season, Seventh Heaven, The River King, Blue Diary, The Probable Future, The Ice Queen, and The Dovekeepers. Her book, The Third Angel, won the 2008 New England Booksellers' Award for fiction. Two of her novels, Practical Magic and Aquamarine, were made into films. She has also written numerous screenplays, including adaptations of her own novels and the original screenplay, Independence Day. Her title's The Museum of Exteaordinary Things, The Marriage of Opposites, Seventh Heaven, and The Rules of Magic made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Series
Obras de Alice Hoffman
The Collected Novels Volume One (Property Of | The Drowning Season | Fortune's Daughter | At Risk) (2016) 28 copias, 1 reseña
The Collected Novels Volume Two: The Foretelling, White Horses, Angel Landing, and Seventh Heaven (2018) 6 copias
The Bookstore Keepers 2 copias
The Witch of Truro 1 copia
Property Of / Second Nature 1 copia
Ploughshares Winter 2017-2018 1 copia
livro licoes de magia 1 copia
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The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
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Faerie Magazine, #39 Summer 2017: A Midsummer Faerie Court (2017) — Contribuidor — 1 copia, 1 reseña
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952-03-16
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- Adelphi University (BA)
Stanford University (MA, creative writing) - Ocupaciones
- novelist
short-story writer - Relaciones
- Hoffman, Lisa (cousin)
- Organizaciones
- Hoffman Breast Center
Doubleday
Brandeis University - Agente
- Elaine Markson (Elaine Markson Agency)
Amanda Urban (ICM Partners) - Biografía breve
- Alice Hoffman 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. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships.
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- Obras
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- También por
- 33
- Miembros
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- Popularidad
- #286
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 1,959
- ISBNs
- 1,059
- Idiomas
- 20
- Favorito
- 198