Alice Hoffman

Raised on Long Island after a New York City childhood, she completed a Bachelor of Arts at Adelphi University before receiving a Mirrielees Fellowship that led to a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Stanford’s writing center. Early publication of a short story while still a student prompted her debut novel, Property Of, in 1977, and a subsequent position at Doubleday helped launch a prolific… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources