About the Author - Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold

Sebold was born on September 6, 1963 in Wisconsin. She underwent some childhood struggles. Her mother, Jane, was an alcoholic and suffered anxiety and panic attacks. So the only person their for her was she sister Mary. Sebolds father was a Spanish professor at The University of Pennsylvania.

Since Alice had a difficulf childhood, after high school she wanted to distance herself away from her family. She enrolled at Syrause University in upstate New York. During her first year of college she was walking back to her dorm from class and got pulled into a tunnel and got attacked and raped. Not only did that happen once, but it also happend again not long after it happened the first time in the same tunnel. The police found the attacker and her got sentenced to prison. It was diffcult for Sebold to find closure after those events.

Sebold never was able to gradurate college, Alice moved to New York City and that is when she began to experiment with drugs. She moved to Califorina and that is when she began to write. Sebold used her life experiences in her writing. You can see that in The Lovely Bones.