Information AboutAlice Sebold |
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| american novelists | |
| american memoirists | |
| syracuse university alumni | |
| university of california, irvine alumni | |
| 1963 births | |
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| people from wisconsin | |
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Alice Sebold was born in Madison , Wisconsin in 1963. She grew up wanting to be a famous Novelist . After graduating from high school Alice Sebold enrolled in Syracuse University in 1980. She has currently published two books, '' Lucky '' and '' The Lovely Bones ''. Alice writes about her own personal experiences in her novels. When Alice Sebold was 18 years old and a for two years Sebold told students at an ''Evening of Fiction'' workshop that, ''"I did a lot of things that I am not particularly proud of and that I can’t believe that I did"'' [http://www.newu.uci.edu/archive/2000-2001/spring/010430/f-010430-alice.html . Sebold left the city and went to California. She was a caretaker of an arts colony. She made $386 a month. She lived in a cabin in the woods without electricity. She would write by Propane candlelight. Sebold applied to graduate school at University Of California At Irvine in 1995. While at UCI Sebold began writing ''Lucky'', a memoir of her rape while at Syracuse. She got the name from a police officer who told Sebold that she was ''lucky'' for not being killed because a girl was raped and killed in the same place she was attacked. Her story began while writing a ten-page assignment for class. She ended up writing forty pages and she went on from there. After publishing ''Lucky'' in 1999, Sebold continued her writing career. She published a novel called ''The Lovely Bones'' in 2002. ''Auckland Writers and Readers Festival'' say that Sebold’s novel, ''The Lovely Bones'' is a ''"number one bestseller celebrated at once for its artistry, its luminous clarity of emotion and its astonishing power to lay claim to the hearts of millions of readers around the world"'' ''The Lovely Bones'' is a story of a 14-year-old girl who is raped and killed. She tells her story from heaven looking down as her family tries to cope with the death of their oldest daughter. While working on ''Lovely Bones'' Sebold met her husband Glen David Gold at UCI in 1995. He arrived to one of his classes late and he could not remove his motor cycle helmet. Sebold began talking with Glen Gold and they were married in November of 2001 [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?cid=996944 . Alice Sebold tells ''Publisher Weekly'', ''I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it’s not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who’ve experienced it from those who haven’t. Though it’s a horrible experience, it’s not as if violence hasn’t affected many of us'' Film director, Peter Jackson is going to make '' The Lovely Bones '' into a movie [http://movies.about.com/od/moviesinproduction/a/lovelybon011805.htm . Alice Sebold won for her novel ''The Lovely Bones'' the ''American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award'' in ''Adult Fiction'' 2003 and the ''Bram Stoker Award'' in ''First Novel'' 2002 of the Horror Writers Association and was also nominated in the ''Novel'' category in that year [http://www.horror.org/stokerwinnom.htm . BOOKS
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