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Alice Hoffman

Biography

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman was born in New York City in 1952 and grew up on Long Island. Hoffman's first novel, PROPERTY OF, was written at the age of twenty-one. She has published a total of 28 works of fiction. Her novel, HERE ON EARTH, an Oprah Book Club choice. PRACTICAL MAGIC was made into a Warner film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Hoffman's work has been published in more than 20 translations and more than 100 foreign editions. Hoffman is currently a visiting research scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She lives in Boston.

Books by Alice Hoffman

by Alice Hoffman - Fiction, Historical Fiction

In 70 CE, 900 Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on a mountain in the Judean desert, Masada. Two women and five children are believed to have survived. Based on this, Alice Hoffman weaves a tale of four extraordinary women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path.

by Alice Hoffman - Fiction

From the writer Time has said tells "truths powerful enough to break a reader's heart" comes a glorious travelogue through time and fate, through loss and love and survival. Welcome to Blackbird House.