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Early life

Sebold grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania in 1980. She then enrolled in Syracuse University. Location of Malvern in relation to Paoli and Chesterbrook Malvern is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Syracuse University (SU) is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. ...

When she was 18 years old and a freshman at Syracuse, she was attacked, beaten and brutally raped in a nearby park. Following the incident, Sebold went back to her dorm where a security guard called an ambulance. After some months at home Sebold returned to Syracuse to finish her bachelor’s degree and study writing. While walking down a street near the Syracuse campus, she recognized her rapist and managed to secure his arrest. Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ...

Following graduation from Syracuse, Sebold went to Texas for graduate school. Then she moved to Manhattan and lived there for 10 years. She held several jobs as a waitress and tried to pursue her writing career. ^[1] Sebold wanted to write her story through poetry, but that, and attempts at writing a novel, did not come to fruition. For some time Sebold tried to deal with her memories of the attack through drugs. She used heroin recreationally for two years, though claims she never became addicted, not having an addictive personality. ^[2] Sebold recounted her drug abuse to students at an Evening of Fiction workshop by saying that, "I did a lot of things that I am not particularly proud of and that I can’t believe that I did." ^[3] Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... Heroin (INN: diacetylmorphine, BAN: diamorphine) is an opioid synthesized directly from the extracts of the opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. ...

Sebold left the city and moved to Southern California, where she became a caretaker of an arts colony, earning $386 a month and living in a cabin in the woods without electricity. She would write by propane candlelight. Later, Sebold applied to graduate school at University of California, Irvine in 1995. For the urban complex straddling the United States-Mexico border, see Bajalta California. ... Propane is a three-carbon alkane, normally a gas, but compressible to a liquid that is transportable. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA; a significant portion of the campus falls into the neighboring community of Newport Beach. ...

Career

While at UCI Sebold began writing Lucky, a memoir of her rape while at Syracuse. She named the book from a police officer who told Sebold that she was lucky for not being killed because a girl was raped and killed in the same place she was attacked. The story began while writing a ten-page assignment for class, though Sebold eventually wrote 40 pages. The book arose from that assignment. Lucky is a memoir by Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, published in 1997. ...

After publishing Lucky in 1999, Sebold continued her writing career. She published a bestselling novel The Lovely Bones in 2002. The book is a story of a 14-year-old girl who is raped and murdered. She tells her story from heaven looking down as her family tries to cope with her death and her killer escapes justice. While working on The Lovely Bones in 1995, Sebold met her husband Glen David Gold at UCI. He arrived late for one of his classes and he could not remove his motor cycle helmet, and they began talking. They were married in November 2001. ^[4] The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. ... Glen David Gold is best known as the author of Carter Beats the Devil (Hyperion, 2001). ...

In an interview conducted by Ann Darby of Publishers Weekly, Sebold said of The Lovely Bones: "I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't. Though it's a horrible experience, it's not as if violence hasn't affected many of us." ^[5] Publishers Weekly is a weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. ...

Alice Sebold won the American Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for Adult Fiction in 2003 ^[6] and the Bram Stoker Award for First Novel in 2002. She was also nominated in the Novel category in that year. ^[7] The American Booksellers Association is a non-profit industry association founded in 1900 that promotes independent bookstores. ... The Bram Stoker Award is a recognition presented by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) for superior achievement in horror writing. ...

Film director Peter Jackson is currently slated to make The Lovely Bones into a film. ^[8] Peter Jackson CNZM (born October 31, 1961) is a three-time Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA winning New Zealand filmmaker best known as the director of The Lord of the Rings trilogy, which he, along with his long time partner, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens adapted from the novels... Based on the novel by Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones is about a 14 year old girl, Susie Salmon, who is murdered by a person that lives in her street. ...

Works

• Lucky (memoir, 2002), Back Bay Books, ISBN 0-316-66634-3
• The Lovely Bones (2002), Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-66634-3
• The Almost Moon (2007), Little, Brown

Lucky is a memoir by Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones, published in 1997. ... The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by Alice Sebold. ... The Almost Moon is the second novel by American writer Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones. ...

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External links

• Alice Sebold at the Internet Movie Database
• The Lovely Bones at the Internet Movie Database
• Meet the Writers at Barnes & Noble (includes detailed interview from the July/August 2002 issue of Book magazine)
• Collection of newspaper articles
• Interview at Powells.com
• Video clip showing the BBC interview
• THE LOVELY BONES Reading Group Guide
• LUCKY Reading Group Guide