Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer. She has written more than thirty works of fiction.
Hoffman was born in New York City and raised on Long Island, New York. She went to college at Adelphi University. She got her master of arts degree (M. A.) at the Stanford University Creative Writing Center in 1973 and 1974.
Her first novel, "Property Of", was published in 1977. She is known for her novel "Practical Magic" (1995). This book was turned into a 1998 film of the same name. It also was the first in a group of novels.
She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film "Independence Day", starring Kathleen Quinlan and Dianne Wiest.
After being treated for breast cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she helped to begin the hospital's Hoffman Breast Center.
Her novel "The World That We Knew" about a Jewish girl being helped to get away from the Nazis won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in 2020.