Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold (born 1963) is an American writer, best known for the novel The Lovely Bones.

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1963 - American - Novel - The Lovely Bones

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Sebold is a graduate of UC Irvine's graduate program in creative writing. She began work on The Lovely Bones in the mid-1990s, but sidestepped the project to write Lucky (1999), a memoir of her own brutal rape while a freshman at Syracuse University and the aftermath of that trauma. The title comes from a comment of local police officers, who told Sebold that she was lucky to have survived as the previous rape victim in the area had been murdered and dismembered.

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UC Irvine's - 1990s - Lucky - 1999 - Memoir - Rape - Syracuse University

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In 2002, her fictional debut The Lovely Bones became an unexpected number one best-seller thanks in part to pre-release praise from novelist/journalist Anna Quindlen. The novel is told in first person from the perspective of a murdered 14-year-old girl. Currently, more than a million copies of the book are in print.

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2002 - Anna Quindlen - First person

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Sebold is married to novelist Glen David Gold.

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