ABOUT ALICE HOFFMAN
American author of young adult and children's fiction. She became famous for her 1996 novel, Practical Magic, which was later adapted into a film.
She studied creative writing at Stanford University.
She wrote the screenplay for the 1983 film Independence Day.
Born in New York City to a Russian-American family, she later married Tom Martin and had two sons.
She is a literary contemporary of Hunger Games writer Suzanne Collins .
