 Credit: David Shankbone, Oct. 2007 | | 42,855 (72,508) | 1,716 | 323 |  (3.79) | 78 | 0 | Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 6, 1963. She attended college at Syracuse University. She was raped as a freshman. Her first book, Lucky, is a memoir which tells the story of that event in her life and its aftermath. Following graduation from Syracuse, she went to the University of Houston for her graduate degree and received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her other books include The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon. She won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 for The Lovely Bones and the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2002. In 2009 a feature film was released of The Lovely Bones starring Mark Wahlberg and Rachel Weisz. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Lovely Bones … (more) |
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Alice Sebold has 2 past events. (show)  Susan Stinson with Kelly Link, Spider in a Tree "Stinson reads the natural world as well as Scripture, searching for meaning. But instead of the portents of an angry god, what she finds there is something numinous, complicated, and radiantly human." Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home"Through an ardent faith in the written word Susan Stinson is a novelist who translates a mundane world into the most poetic of possibilities." Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones Susan Stinson is the author of three novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays and was awarded the Lambda Literary Foundation's Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize. Writer in Residence at Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts, she is also an editor and writing coach. Kelly Link lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she and her husband, Gavin J. Grant, run Small Beer Press and publish the zine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
Location: Street: Porter Square Shopping Center Additional: 25 White Street City: Cambridge, Province: Massachusetts Postal Code: 02140 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Shameless Hussies Book Club Meeting Alice Sebold , The Almost Moon. This month the Hussies will be discussing "Almost Moon" by Alice Sebold(author of the "Lovely Bones"). Purchase your book club selection at Room and get 10% off!!For more info e-mail Marissa at assiramnes@yahoo.com (booksense)
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