Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including  The World That We Knew ,  The Rules of Magic ,  The Marriage of Opposites ,  Practical Magic,  The Red Garden , the Oprah’s Book Club selection  Here on Earth ,  The Museum of Extraordinary Things , and  The Dovekeepers. Her most recent novel is  The World That We Knew. She lives near Boston.

Personal biography
Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently lives in Boston.

​Hoffman has published over thirty novels, three books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults. Her novel,  Here on Earth, an Oprah Book Club choice, was a modern reworking of some of the themes of Emily Bronte’s masterpiece  Wuthering Heights. Practical Magic  was made into a Warner film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Her novel,  At Risk, which concerns a family dealing with AIDS, can be found on the reading lists of many universities, colleges and secondary schools. Hoffman’s advance from  Local Girls, a collection of inter-related fictions about love and loss on Long Island, was donated to help create the Hoffman Breast Center at Mt. Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA. Hoffman has written a number of novels for young adults, including  Aquamarine ,  Green Angel,  and  Green Witch. In 2007 Little Brown published the teen novel  Incantation, a story about hidden Jews during the Spanish Inquisition, which  Publishers Weekly chose as one of the best books of the year.