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Alice Sebold was born in Antigo, Wisconsin. She 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. On the last day of her freshman year, on her way back to her residence hall, Sebold was raped. After some months at home Sebold returned to Syracuse to finish her bachelor's degree and to study writing.

While at UCI, Sebold began writing Lucky, a memoir of her rape. The story began while writing a ten-page assignment, though Sebold eventually wrote 40 pages for her class. After Lucky, Sebold published the bestselling novel The Lovely Bones. 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 couldn't take his hat off, and they began talking. They were married in November 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." The novel was adapted into a 2009 film of the same name by Peter Jackson. Sebold's second novel, The Almost Moon, continued what The New Yorker called "Sebold's fixation on terror".

Available Books by Alice Sebold

	Lovely Bones, The (Picador 40th) Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9781447202653 RRP: $22.99 "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer." This is Susie Salmon. Watching from heaven, Susie sees her happy suburban family devastated by her death, isolated even from one another as they ea...
	Lovely Bones, Film Tie-In Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330457729 RRP: $17.99 More than eight million copies sold around the world now a film by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings, Heavenly Creatures) "My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer." This is Susie Salmo...
	The Almost Moon Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330451352 RRP: $22.99 Helen Knightly has spent a lifetime trying to win the love of a mother who had none to spare. And as this electrifying novel opens, she steps over a boundary she never dreamt she would even approach. But while her act is almost unconscious, it also seems like the fulfilment of a lifetime's buried desire. Over the next 24 hours, her life rushes in at her as she confronts the choices that have...
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330485388 RRP: $17.99 'My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.' This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellor...
	Lucky Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780330418362 RRP: $22.95 'In the tunnel where I was raped, a tunnel that was once an underground entry to an amphitheatre, a place where actors burst forth from underneath the seats of a crowd, a girl had been murdered and dismembered. I was told this story by the police. In comparison, they said, I was lucky.'...

	Looking Glass Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316081085 RRP: $51.95 In "The Lovely Bones," the spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder and her family's efforts to find the killer; and in "Looking Glass," Susie's story is integrated with cases of actual missing children....
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316044936 RRP: $19.95 The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened....
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316044400 RRP: $10.95 The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. Reprint. Movie tie-in. A #1 best seller....
	The Almost Moon Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316004305 RRP: $34.95 Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation....
	The Almost Moon Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316677462 RRP: $32.95 Having set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, Helen Knightly confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a harrowing twenty-four-hour period of death and revelation. By the author of The Lovely Bones. 750,000 first printing....
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316001823 RRP: $21.95 The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel. Reprint. 50,000 first printing....
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316168816 RRP: $19.95 The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 750,000 first printing....
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780316666343 RRP: $28.95 The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened. A first novel. 40,000 first printing....
	Greyhounds Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9781584797357 RRP: $38.95 Spotlights the spirit, charm, and personality of the greyhound through color photographs, quotes that pay tribute to the dog as a companion, and an essay that describes the efforts made to find homes for them beyond racing....
	Lucky Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316096195 RRP: $16.95 The author describes the circumstances of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, the arrest and trial of her attacker, and her struggle to reclaim her shattered life....
	The Almost Moon Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780316067362 RRP: $19.95 Helen Knightly, who has set aside her own life in her support of her parents, husband, and children, confronts the realities of the choices that were imposed upon her during a brief, harrowing period of death and revelation....
	The Best American Short Stories 2009 Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780618792245 RRP: $36.95 A collection edited by the best-selling author of The Lovely Bones, The Almost Moon, and Lucky includes stories by such authors as Annie Proulx, Richard Powers, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Yiyun Li, Daniel Alarc n and others....
	The Best American Short Stories 2009 Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780618792252 RRP: $18.95 A collection edited by the best-selling author of The Lovely Bones, The Almost Moon, and Lucky includes stories by such authors as Annie Proulx, Richard Powers, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Yiyun Li, Daniel Alarc n and others. Original....
	The Best of Mutts Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 9780740768446 RRP: $32.95 ...
	The Lovely Bones Binding: Paperback ISBN: 9780973398489 RRP: $25.95 ...

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The Almost Moon
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330451376

For years, Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now-grown daughters. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over 24 hours, this searing novel explores the ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion ...

The Lovely Bones
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780330485395

'My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. My murderer was a man from our neighborhood. My mother liked his border flowers, and my father talked to him once about fertilizer.' This is Susie Salmon, speaking to us from heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counsellor...

The Lovely Bones
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781586638665

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