Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman ( born March 16, 1952 in New York City ) is an American writer.

Hoffman's work, so far, inter alia, fifteen books for adults and six children, is characterized by elements such as magic, irony and unusual love relationships and has been translated into more than twenty languages ​​.

But despite these fantasy elements is lacking in her work not to respect reality. For example, " At Risk " deals with the subject of AIDS and is in many schools required reading.

Biography

Alice Hoffman grew up on Long Iceland.

After her high school graduation in 1969 Alice short time worked at Doubleday, but decided nevertheless to study.

So she enrolled at Adelphi University, where she attained a BA. Shortly after, she received a scholarship for the ' Creative Writing Center ' at Stanford University, which she attended 1973-1974 and eventually made their MA.

During her studies, helped her mentor Alber J. Guerard, and his wife Maclin Bocock Guerard, who are both well-known authors, a short story in the magazine to publish " fiction ".

Following the publication of the editors of the magazine " American Review " Ted Solotaroff Alice said, because he was willing to reprint one of her stories. Since she had no reasonable available, they began to write and her first work " Property Of " was released in 1977.

To date, Alice Hoffman has fifteen stories, two books of short stories, six children's books and the screenplay for Independence Day (1983, with Kathleen Quinlan and Dianne Wiest ) is written.

Even some of their own books have been filmed. The best known is probably the movie Practical Magic, starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Starring, based on the book " Practical Magic " Also, " The River King " and " Aquamarine " were filmed.

Alice Hoffman is married and lives with her husband and two sons in Cambridge (Massachusetts ).

Bibliography

  • 2000 - The River King ( The River King) Horsefly children's book
  • 2001 - Aquamarine Children's Book The Blue Diary ( Blue Diary )
  • 2002 - Indigo children's book
  • 2003 - March Children (The Probable Future ) Green Angel children's book
  • 2004 - Blackbird House
  • 2005 - The Snow Queen ( The Ice Queen) Daughter of the Amazon (The Foretelling )
  • 2007 - Incantation
  • 2008 - Angel Child ( Skylight Confessions )

Short story collections

  • 2003 - Tales Water / Aqua Marine & Indigo

Awards

Films

Screenplay

Based Upon

Cambridge (Massachusetts) Griffin Dunne Integrated Authority File
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