Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold is an American author. She is known for her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky.

* Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1963.
* She graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania in 1980.
* She attended Syracuse University, where she earned her bachelor's degree.
* Among her professors was Tess Gallagher, who became one of Sebold's confidantes.
* Also among her professors were Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, and Hayden Carruth.
* In 1981, Sebold was raped while walking home from a bar in Syracuse.
* She wrote about her experience in her memoir, Lucky, which was published in 1999.
* The Lovely Bones, Sebold's second novel, was published in 2002.
* The Lovely Bones was a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a film in 2010.