Alice Hoffman, American novelist and youngadult and children’s author, was born on March 16, 1952, in New York, and was raised in Long Island, N.Y.

As a child, she loved creating her own fantasy worlds, and filled notebooks with writings of various versions of amazing fantasy worlds. She loved to read stories to do with magic, fairytales and science fiction, and always said she wanted to be a writer.

Alice graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a Master of Arts in creative writing. Her first novel, “Property Of,” was published in 1977. She is best known for her 1995 novel “Practical Magic,” the first book of a four-volume series made into a movie by the same name in 1998.

She is married to screenwriter and investor Tom Martin, and they have two sons, Jake and Wolfe. Her son Wolfe Martin worked together with her on the picture book “Moondog.”

Alice is a creative writer of over 40 books, best known for her magical realism. Her books have won her many awards and are New York Times bestsellers. She and her family live in Boston. She was treated for breast cancer at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, where she helped start the hospital’s Hoffman Breast Center.

This month, March 2026, her book “The Best Dog in the World” comes out. It is a collection of essays on love by various authors and edited by Alice Hoffman.

Her newest book, “The Witches of Cambridge,” the first book in a new spellbinding series, will come out Aug. 11, 2026.

We have three of her fiction books “Turtle Moon, Here on Earth” and “At Risk,” and one of her (B-2) children’s books, “Horsefly.”