Alice LaPlante
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Alice LaPlante | |
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| Born | Chicago |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Genre | Fiction, non-fiction |
| Subject | Crime, mystery |
| Notable works | Turn of Mind (2011) |
| Notable awards | Stegner Fellowship[1] Wellcome Book Prize (2011) |
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Alice LaPlante is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction.[2] She is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and Professor of Creative writing at San Francisco State University.[3] She won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2011.
Biography
[edit]LaPlante grew up in Chicago.[4] She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English Literature.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]LaPlante started writing as a journalist and later, an author. She wrote for several technology periodicals including IBM, HP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Sunsoft.[1] She taught creative writing at Stanford University and San Francisco State University.[5]
LaPlante's debut novel, Turn of Mind (2011), received critical acclaim and won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize in 2011.[6] Her writing style and narrative techniques were praised for authenticity and emotional depth.[7] She has also written short stories in literary journals such as Epoché and Southwest Review..[citation needed] She wrote Method and Madness: The Making of a Story, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing.[8]
In 2014 LaPlante published her novel, A Circle of Wives.[9] In 2018, she published Half Moon Bay.[10]
Bibliography
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b Baker, Jeff (9 July 2011). "Alice LaPlante: business writer, teacher, first novelist". oregonlive.
- ^ Bartell, Gerald. "'Half Moon Bay,' by Alice LaPlante". SFGATE.
- ^ "A Talk by Alice LaPlante". American University of Sharjah. 3 November 2013.
- ^ Flood, Alison (22 November 2011). "Alice LaPlante: 'Alzheimer's is a hard thing to frame'". The Guardian.
- ^ Slutzky, Zoë (15 July 2011). "An Alzheimer's Mystery Novel". The New York Times.
- ^ Allen, Katie. "LaPlante wins Wellcome prize". The Bookseller.
- ^ Ciabattari, Jane (27 July 2011). "Alice LaPlante on Her Alzheimer's Mystery, Turn of Mind". The Daily Beast.
- ^ "Method and madness : the making of a story / Alice LaPlante". catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu.
- ^ Woog, Adam (14 March 2014). "'A Circle of Wives': three wives, one murder". The Seattle Times.
- ^ Dyer, Shannon. "Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante". All About Romance.