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Alice LaPlante
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. BiographyLaPlante grew up in Chicago.[4] She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English Literature.[citation needed] CareerLaPlante 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
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