Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold was born in Wisconsin and raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia. In her freshman year at Syracuse University in New York State, she was assaulted while walking off-campus, and spent years attempting to ensure that her rapist—whom she did not know—was eventually put behind bars. The experience shaped many of Sebold’s interests and obsessions as a writer, and her 1999 memoir Lucky, her 2002 debut novel The Lovely Bones, and her 2007 follow-up The Almost Moon all reflect themes of violence, darkness, injustice, and the banality of evil. Sebold holds an MFA in fiction from the University of California Irvine, and lives in San Francisco with her husband, Glen David Gold, who is also a writer and whom she met in the writing program at UC Irvine.