Alice LaPlante

Alice LaPlante
Born	Chicago
Occupation	Journalist writer
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)
Website
www.alicelaplante.com

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

LaPlante grew up in Chicago. ^[4] She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English Literature.^{[ citation needed ]}

Career

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

• 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

1. Baker, Jeff (9 July 2011). "Alice LaPlante: business writer, teacher, first novelist". oregonlive.
2. Bartell, Gerald. "'Half Moon Bay,' by Alice LaPlante". SFGATE .
3. "A Talk by Alice LaPlante". American University of Sharjah . 3 November 2013.
4. Flood, Alison (22 November 2011). "Alice LaPlante: 'Alzheimer's is a hard thing to frame'". The Guardian .
5. Slutzky, Zoë (15 July 2011). "An Alzheimer's Mystery Novel". The New York Times .
6. Allen, Katie. "LaPlante wins Wellcome prize". The Bookseller .
7. Ciabattari, Jane (27 July 2011). "Alice LaPlante on Her Alzheimer's Mystery, Turn of Mind". The Daily Beast.
8. "Method and madness : the making of a story / Alice LaPlante". catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu.
9. Woog, Adam (14 March 2014). "'A Circle of Wives': three wives, one murder". The Seattle Times.
10. Dyer, Shannon. "Half Moon Bay by Alice LaPlante". All About Romance.