Alice Sebold is an American writer. She has published three books: "Lucky" (1999), "The Lovely Bones" (2002), and "The Almost Moon" (2007).
Education
When she was 18 years old and a freshman at Syracuse, she was attacked, beaten and brutally raped in a nearby park. Following the incident, Sebold went back to her dorm where a security guard called an ambulance. After some months at home Sebold returned to Syracuse to finish her bachelor's degree and study writing. Months later, while walking down a street near the Syracuse campus, she recognized her rapist and secured his arrest.
After graduating from Syracuse University, Sebold went to the University of Houston in Texas, where she studied poetry.
At age 33, Sebold moved to California to pursue a master’s degree in fine arts at the University of California in Irvine.
Career
While working in an adjunct professorship position at Hunter College, Sebold discovered her gift for teaching.
After living in the city for ten years, she moved to California and became a caretaker of the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony. She earned only $386 a month and lived in a cabin in the woods without electricity.
At age 33, she began writing a novel called Monsters, a story about the rape and murder of a 14-year old girl. After more revisions, Monsters eventually became The Lovely Bones. While at UCI, Sebold began writing Lucky, a memoir of her rape. The title came from the policeman who told her she was lucky to be alive after her rape attack. Sebold’s second novel, Almost Noon, is about a suburban woman living in Pennsylvania who kills her elderly mother in a fit of rage.