{"id":49,"date":"2023-12-06T20:51:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/writers-readers-festival\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:04:21","slug":"authors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/writers-readers-festival\/authors\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Featured Authors and Participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-image-168 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/writers-readers-festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2024\/01\/alice-hoffman-150x150.png\" alt=\"Alice Hoffman \u201973\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/writers-readers-festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2024\/01\/alice-hoffman-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/writers-readers-festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2024\/01\/alice-hoffman-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.adelphi.edu\/writers-readers-festival\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/125\/2024\/01\/alice-hoffman.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: @AlyssaPeek<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>Alice Hoffman &#8217;73<\/h2>\n<p><span>Alice Hoffman is the author of the <\/span><em><span>Practical Magic<\/span><\/em><span> novels, which will come to movie screens for a second time this September in the highly anticipated film <\/span><em><span>Practical Magic 2. <\/span><\/em><span>Her more than 30 works of fiction include <\/span><em><span>When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary, The World That We Knew, The Marriage of Opposites, The Red Garden, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Dovekeepers, Here on Earth<\/span><\/em><span> (an Oprah\u2019s Book Club selection), and <\/span><em><span>Practical Magic, Magic Lessons, The Rules of Magic<\/span><\/em><span> (a selection of Reese\u2019s Book Club), and <\/span><em><span>The Book of Magic. <\/span><\/em><span>Her most recent book is the anthology <\/span><em><span>The Best Dog in the World: Essays on Love, <\/span><\/em><span>a collection of pieces by 14 authors celebrating the life-changing bond they\u2019ve experienced with their dogs, and her next novel,<\/span><em><span> The Witches of Cambridge, <\/span><\/em><span>will be published in August. A<\/span> <span>Broadway production of <\/span><em><span>Practical Magic<\/span><\/em><span>, featuring the music of Norah Jones and Gregg Wattenberg, is in the works. She lives near Boston, Massachusetts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alice Hoffman &#8217;73 Alice Hoffman is the author of the Practical Magic novels, which will come to movie screens for a second time this September in the highly anticipated film Practical Magic 2. 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