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Alice Hoffman

1952 - Today

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Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2024). Alice Hoffman is the 6,402nd most popular writer (up from 6,542nd in 2024), the 11,997th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,556th in 2019) and the 870th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alice Hoffman ranks 6,402 out of 7,302. Before her are John Addington Symonds, Renata Viganò, Ksenia Sobchak, George B. Seitz, Glenn Greenwald, and Michael McClure. After her are Dick King-Smith, Ann Coulter, Gilles Leroy, Anthony McCarten, Gerbrand Bakker, and Linda Maria Baros.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Alice Hoffman ranks 643. Before her are Eusebio Acasuzo, Tatyana Goyshchik, John Hiatt, Marcella Detroit, Juice Newton, and Guillermo La Rosa. After her are Valentina Nikonova, Rudolf Kargus, Heiner Brand, Raúl González, Anastase Murekezi, and Sugata Mitra.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Hoffman ranks 11,999 out of 20,380. Before her are Louise Fazenda (1895), Pauline Bush (1886), Michael McClure (1932), St. Vincent (1982), Billy Higgins (1936), and Lesley Ashburner (1883). After her are Martha Plimpton (1970), Donald Faison (1974), Rod Milburn (1950), John B. Anderson (1922), Arthur Jensen (1923), and Wilfred Benítez (1958).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Alice Hoffman ranks 870. Before her are Damon Runyon (1880), Leslie Feinberg (1949), James Branch Cabell (1879), George B. Seitz (1888), Glenn Greenwald (1967), and Michael McClure (1932). After her are Ann Coulter (1961), Joel Barlow (1754), Robert Cormier (1925), Lester Bangs (1948), Alice Sebold (1963), and Terry Southern (1924).

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