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Alice LaPlante


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Alice LaPlante is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a Wallace Stegner Fellow and Jones Lecturer. She also teaches in the MFA program at San Francisco State University. Her fiction has been widely published in Epoch, Southwestern Review, and other literary journals. Alice is the author of five books, including the LA Times bestseller Method and Madness: The Making of a Story (W.W. Norton 2009). Her latest book, the novel Turn of Mind, will be published by Grove Atlantic in 2011. She lives with her family in Northern California.
 


Genres: Mystery
 
New and upcoming books
April 2025

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The Lab
 
Novels
   Turn of Mind (2011)
   A Circle of Wives (2014)
   Coming of Age at the End of Days (2015)
   Half Moon Bay (2018)
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Award nominations
2012 Macavity Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Turn of Mind
2012 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger (longlist) : Turn of Mind
2012 Barry Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Turn of Mind
2011 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize for Fiction (second place) : Turn of Mind


Alice LaPlante recommends
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The Wonder Test (2021)
Michelle Richmond
"The Wonder Test paints a rich, complex picture of the San Francisco Bay Area that both resonates with its natural beauty and captures the darker aspects of being the extremely privileged cyber capital of the world."
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We Were Strangers Once (2017)
Betsy Carter
"In this sharply observed historical novel, a web of friendships connect German Jews in pre-Hitler Germany after they emigrate to America. In their complex relationships and struggles both emotional and cultural, we are given insight into life at its most resilient and joyous. An important book to remind us of the humanity in the current wave of immigrants, and how much they have to offer us."
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The Second Mrs. Hockaday (2017)
Susan Rivers
"With The Second Mrs. Hockaday, Susan Rivers viscerally evokes a bygone era without sentimentality. Her deeply sympathetic characters cope with the hard truths of slavery and war, maintaining their humanity and capability for redemption throughout. A thoroughly engrossing and affecting read."

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