Alice Sebold is one of the most popular and richest Memoirist who was born on September 6, 1963 in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. An American fiction and memoir writer, she is best known for her 2002 novel, The Lovely Bones, which tells the story of the rape and murder of a teenage girl. Her 1999 memoir, Lucky, details her own rape.
Her novel, The Lovely Bones, was made into a feature film starring Mark Wahlberg.
Sebold was born in Madison, Wisconsin. She grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, where her father taught Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania. Sebold graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1980.
Sebold returned home to Pennsylvania for the summer before returning to Syracuse to finish her bachelor’s degree and study writing. On October 5, 1981, while walking down a street near the Syracuse campus, she recognized her rapist. She notified police and testified against the rapist in court; he was convicted of rape and sodomy, and sentenced to eight to 25 years. Her attacker is out of prison now, but Sebold says she has not kept track of his whereabouts.
She was born in Wisconsin and raised in Pennsylvania. She married Glen David Gold in 2001.
