Our Alice left us on January 25th, to join her husband Kendall who preceded her in death by 21 years. Alice passed peacefully at home surrounded by her family and friends. She was able to exit this ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — With the cooperation of the Anne Frank House, a novel based on Frank’s life immediately before she began keeping a diary will be released in September by the children’s publisher ...

Workers gather after the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York, which became a rallying cry for miserable working conditions. It's part of the backdrop for Alice Hoffman's "The Museum of ...

In this episode, we feature the celebrated novelist and screenwriter Alice Hoffman. She’s in conversation with the former Director of the Multnomah County Library, Vailey Oehlke, at the Portland Book ...

In The Book of Magic, author Alice Hoffman picks up the story of the Owens family inside a library, where yet another curse is at work. As the Owens women try to stop the curse, they explore the ...

“When We Flew Away” envisions what Anne might have been like before the cataclysm that shut her away and made her into “the voice of the Holocaust.” By Ruth Franklin In “The Book of Magic,” a family ...

“Magical” is a word frequently used to describe the writing of Alice Hoffman, but that does not, by any means, make her a predecessor to J.K. Rowling. There are no wizards or sorcerers in Hoffman’s ...

Witty mysteries, cottagecore fantasies and bighearted classics provide a dose of warmth and comfort to bolster you through the long, cold nights ahead. By Calum Marsh “When We Flew Away” envisions ...

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This photo provided by Scholastic Inc. shows the cover of When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary, written by best-selling author Alice Hoffman. (Scholastic Inc. via AP) (Uncredited) ...