Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman is an American novelist and writer of young-adult and children's books. She was born on March 16, 1952, in New York City and raised on Long Island. She graduated from Valley Stream North High School in 1969, earned a Bachelor of Arts at Adelphi University, and completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where she was a Mirrielees Fellow in 1973 and 1974. Her first novel, Property Of, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1977. Her work often blends magic realism, fantasy and historical fiction. Her novels include Practical Magic (1995), Turtle Moon, The Ice Queen, The Dovekeepers and The World That We Knew (2019). Turtle Moon won the Hammett Prize, and Practical Magic was adapted as a 1998 film.

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Books

• Practical Magic (1995) · Practical Magic Core Canon
• The Rules of Magic (2017) · Practical Magic Core Canon
• Magic Lessons (2020) · Practical Magic Core Canon
• The Book of Magic (2021) · Practical Magic Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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