Alice Sebold is a very well-known author around the world. She has written fictional stories along with a personal experience. Writing of her own experience impacted her to write some of her other novels. Lucky was written of her experience and later she wrote a similar fictional novel called The Lovely Bones. Going through such a horrible experience has forever impacted the way she writes.
Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 6, 1963. She is the second child. While she was growing up, her house was filled with dysfunction. Her mother was an alcoholic, leaving her older sister to care for her. Sebold is the daughter of two academic parents. Her mother worked as a journalist for a small newspaper. Her father was a Spanish …show more content…
After graduating high school, she was unable to get into Pennsylvania University, so she attended Syracuse University in New York in the fall. While attending Syracuse, a life changing event took place. She was brutally raped in the tunnel of the amphitheater (Glaug 1). She stayed at Syracuse, where she enrolled in a creative writing class. Eventually she earned her bachelor’s degree and studied writing (Glaug 2). After attending Syracuse, she transferred to the University of Houston, where she failed as a graduate student. After her failed attempt at Texas, she relocated herself to New York City, where she began to experiment Heroin. While working in a professorship at Hunters College, she found her gift as a teacher (“Alice Sebold Biography” 2). After living in the city for ten years, she applied to graduate school at the University of California (Glaug 2). She graduated from there in 1998 with a MFA (Master of Fine Arts) (“Alice Sebold Biography” 2). Sebold went through a lot as a child and young adult; however, her rape experience was the most horrific. Going through such an experience has helped shape her into the writer and person she is
Alice Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin on September 6, 1963. She is the second child. While she was growing up, her house was filled with dysfunction. Her mother was an alcoholic, leaving her older sister to care for her. Sebold is the daughter of two academic parents. Her mother worked as a journalist for a small newspaper. Her father was a Spanish …show more content…
After graduating high school, she was unable to get into Pennsylvania University, so she attended Syracuse University in New York in the fall. While attending Syracuse, a life changing event took place. She was brutally raped in the tunnel of the amphitheater (Glaug 1). She stayed at Syracuse, where she enrolled in a creative writing class. Eventually she earned her bachelor’s degree and studied writing (Glaug 2). After attending Syracuse, she transferred to the University of Houston, where she failed as a graduate student. After her failed attempt at Texas, she relocated herself to New York City, where she began to experiment Heroin. While working in a professorship at Hunters College, she found her gift as a teacher (“Alice Sebold Biography” 2). After living in the city for ten years, she applied to graduate school at the University of California (Glaug 2). She graduated from there in 1998 with a MFA (Master of Fine Arts) (“Alice Sebold Biography” 2). Sebold went through a lot as a child and young adult; however, her rape experience was the most horrific. Going through such an experience has helped shape her into the writer and person she is