Biography

Alice LaPlante

TURN OF MIND, Alice LaPlante’s debut novel, won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, was a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award for Fiction, and was named a New York Times and Booklist Editors’ Choice and a #1 IndieNext pick. LaPlante is also an award-winning writer of creative nonfiction, including THE MAKING OF A STORY: A Norton Guide to Writing Fiction and Nonfiction. Raised in Chicago, she now lives in Northern California and teaches at Stanford University and San Francisco State University.

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Alice LaPlante

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Books by Alice LaPlante

by Alice LaPlante - Fiction, Suspense, Thriller

In Alice LaPlante's masterful, haunting debut novel, a former orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia becomes the primary suspect in the murder of her best friend and neighbor.