Alice Sebold
American writer (born 1963) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963)[1] is an American author. She is known for her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky. The Lovely Bones was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2009. Her memoir, Lucky, sold over a million copies and describes her experience in her first year at Syracuse University, when she was raped. Anthony Broadwater was incorrectly identified as the perpetrator. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison. He was exonerated in 2021, after a judge overturned the original conviction. Consequently, the publisher of Lucky announced that the book would no longer be distributed.
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Born | (1963-09-06) September 6, 1963 (age 60) Madison, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Education | Syracuse University (BA) University of Houston University of California, Irvine (MFA) |
Genre | Literary fiction, memoir |
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