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Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman
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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 twenty-eight 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 twenty translations and more than one hundred foreign editions. Hoffman is currently a visiting research scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She lives in Boston.

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Practical Magic
Nov 22, 2012
Practical Magic is now available in Audio Download
Nov 06, 2012
Practical Magic will be released on November 06, 2012 in Audio Download
Nov 06, 2012
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The Dovekeepers
Apr 28, 2012
The Dovekeepers will be released on April 03, 2012 in Trade Paperback
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The Dovekeepers is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 03, 2012
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Mar 01, 2012
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The Dovekeepers
Oct 04, 2011
The Dovekeepers will be released on October 04, 2011 in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Oct 04, 2011
The Dovekeepers is now available in Hardcover, Compact Disk, eAudio, eBook
Oct 04, 2011
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Boston Globe, May 16, 2013
...Suffolk Downs”) reads at 6 p.m. in the Commonwealth Salon at the Boston Public Library, Copley … Alice Hoffman (“Dovekeepers”) reads at 6:30 p.m. at the South End Library, 685 Tremont St. … Mary Jo Griffin and Patrick Cook (“Sully: The Words,...
PRWeb, May 6, 2013
...Cary, North Carolina, with her husband and English bulldog, Bubba. Readers who love the novels of Anita Shreve, Alice Hoffman and Jodi Picoult will also enjoy I Know You’re There for its memorable characters and conflicts blended with an essence of the...
Psychology Today, May 5, 2013
...It’s more than appropriate that Alice Hoffman, a master of magical realism with such bestselling novels as Practical Magic and Here on Earth has a Mother’s Day fairytale in the offering. Mother’s Day is...
Ames Daily Tribune, May 4, 2013
...and wise, pacifying the family discord and transforming the hotel’s fortunes. However, he has his own agenda. Alice Hoffman’s “The Red Garden” is a series of stories. Hallie Brady founded Blackwell, Massachusetts in 1750 and kept families alive...
Greenwich Time, April 4, 2013
...will release on May 28. The writer would love to have a career like that of her idol Alice Hoffman, who has eluded being pigeonholed during a long and successful career. "She has written across genres and yet has kept her readership. She has been such...
FORA.tv, April 4, 2013
...(Christopher Castellani (moderator), Alice Hoffman, Tom Perrotta) Internationally best-selling writers Alice Hoffman and Tom Perrotta, authors of over thirty books between them, read from their recent fiction. After the reading, Grub Street artistic...
Elmhurst Patch, March 27, 2013
...a special book discussion connected to the museum's exhibit Open House: Art About Home. BlackBird House by Alice Hoffman Hoffman weaves an interconnected web of tales centered on one remote farm house in Cape Cod over the course of 200 years. The past...
Cape Cod Online, June 6, 2013
...Festival in June. Thirty-one authors will speak, including local favorites Nancy Thayer, Nathaniel Philbrick, Ann Leary, Dennis Lehane, Alice Hoffman and Elin Hilderbrand. Over the three days, there will be opportunities to have breakfast, brunch and...
Cape Cod Online, June 6, 2013
...Festival in June. Thirty-one authors will speak, including local favorites Nancy Thayer, Nathaniel Philbrick, Ann Leary, Dennis Lehane, Alice Hoffman and Elin Hilderbrand. Over the three days, there will be opportunities to have breakfast, brunch and...
PriceCountyDaily.com, June 4, 2013
...many friends. Preceding Josephine in death were her parents, her sisters Laura Hoffman, Dorothy Nilson, Grace Kelly, and Alice Hoffman, and brother Clifford Hoffman. In lieu of flowers, memorials made to the VFW Post 8491 or the American Heart...
TCPalm, June 4, 2013
...772-462-2787; library.stlucieco.gov. “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot — June 6. “Blackbird House” by Alice Hoffman — June 20. “Defending Jacob” by William Landay — July 18. “Born on a Blue Day” by Daniel...
Library Journal, June 3, 2013
...novel about Mozart’s affair with a young soprano. On the nonfiction front,  novelists  Ann Patchett and Alice Hoffman respectively offer an essay collection and a compendium of hard-earned wisdom on how to live, while historical fiction...
TCPalm, May 29, 2013
...772-462-2787; library.stlucieco.gov. “Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot — June 6. “Blackbird House” by Alice Hoffman — June 20. “Defending Jacob” by William Landay — July 18. “Born on a Blue Day” by Daniel...
Cape Cod Online, May 25, 2013
...writers and literary commentators is just as impressive. Scheduled to appear are Amy Brill ("The Movement of Stars"), Alice Hoffman ("The Dovekeepers"), Nathaniel Philbrick ("Bunker Hill"), Nancy Thayer ("Island Girls"), Kitty Pilgrim ("The Stolen...