Alice Sebold

ABOUT ALICE SEBOLD

An American fiction and memoir writer, she is best known for her 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones, which tells the story of the rape and murder of a teenage girl. Her 1999 memoir, Lucky, details her own rape.

She studied creative writing at Syracuse University. She subsequently worked as a waitress in Manhattan while pursuing her writing career.

She once worked as the caretaker of an artists' colony and lived in an electricity-less cabin in the woods.

She was born in Wisconsin and raised in Pennsylvania. She married Glen David Gold in 2001.

Her novel, The Lovely Bones, was made into a feature film starring Mark Wahlberg .