Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction. Hoffman’s newest novel, The World That We Knew out in September 2019, is set in Europe during the Holocaust and follows three young women who must act with courage and to survive history’s darkest hour. Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduating from high school in 1969, she attended Adelphi University, from which she received a BA, and then received a Mirrellees Fellowship to the Stanford University Creative Writing Center, which she attended in 1973 and 74, receiving an MA in creative writing. She currently lives in Boston.