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Alice LaPlante is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and Professor of Creative writing at San Francisco State University. She won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2011.

Biography

LaPlante grew up in Chicago. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English Literature.

Career

LaPlante started writing as a journalist and later, an author. She wrote for several technology periodicals including IBM, HP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Sunsoft. She taught creative writing at Stanford University and San Francisco State University.

LaPlante's debut novel, Turn of Mind (2011), received critical acclaim and won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize in 2011. Her writing style and narrative techniques were praised for authenticity and emotional depth. She has also written short stories in literary journals such as Epoché and Southwest Review.. She wrote Method and Madness: The Making of a Story, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing.

In 2014 LaPlante published her novel, A Circle of Wives. In 2018, she published Half Moon Bay.

Bibliography

• Laplante, Alice (2011). Turn of Mind. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802145901.
• A Circle of Wives. Atlantic Monthly Press. March 4, 2014. p. 325. ISBN 978-0802122346.
• Coming of Age at the End of Days. Audible Studios. 2015. ISBN 978-1-5113-5772-2.
• Half Moon Bay. Scribner. 10 July 2018. ISBN 978-1-5011-9088-9.

References

1. ^ Baker, Jeff (9 July 2011). "Alice LaPlante: business writer, teacher, first novelist". oregonlive.
2. Bartell, Gerald. "'Half Moon Bay,' by Alice LaPlante". SFGATE.
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4. Flood, Alison (22 November 2011). "Alice LaPlante: 'Alzheimer's is a hard thing to frame'". The Guardian.
5. Slutzky, Zoë (15 July 2011). "An Alzheimer's Mystery Novel". The New York Times.
6. Allen, Katie. "LaPlante wins Wellcome prize". The Bookseller.
7. Ciabattari, Jane (27 July 2011). "Alice LaPlante on Her Alzheimer's Mystery, Turn of Mind". The Daily Beast.
8. "Method and madness : the making of a story / Alice LaPlante". catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu.
9. Woog, Adam (14 March 2014). "'A Circle of Wives': three wives, one murder". The Seattle Times.
10. Dyer, Shannon. "Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante". All About Romance.

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