Draft:Alice LaPlante

Alice LaPlante is an American author known for her works of fiction and non-fiction. She is also a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and Professor of Creative writing at San Francisco State University. She has been awarded with Wellcome Book Prize and was the finalist of Barry Award (crime novel prize) and Macavity Awards.

Biography
She grew up in Chicago. She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English Literature. Later, she pursued further studies in writing.

Career
After completing her education, LaPlante began her career as a writer, and gained recognition for her work as a journalist and writer, She's written for several tech periodicals including IBM, HP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Sunsoft.

Additionally, she taught creative writing at Stanford University and San Francisco State University.

LaPlante is the author of several books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her debut novel, Turn of Mind, published in 2011, received critical acclaim and won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize. The novel explores the experience of Alzheimer's disease through the perspective of a suspect with the condition. LaPlante's writing style and narrative techniques were praised for their authenticity and emotional depth.

In addition to her novels, LaPlante has published short stories in literary journals such as Epoch and Southwest Review. She is also the author of Method and Madness: The Making of a Story, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing.

In 2014 LaPlante published her novel "A Circle of Wives," narrating a story of plastic surgeon John Taylor's mysterious death reveals his hidden life with three wives.

In 2018 She published Half Moon Bay, that navigates grief, trauma, and hope amidst the eerie disappearance of young girls in her seaside village.