Alice Hoff­man is the author of more than thir­ty works of fic­tion, includ­ing, The World That We Knew, The Rules of Mag­ic, The Mar­riage of Oppo­sites, Prac­ti­cal Mag­ic, The Red Gar­den, the Oprah’s Book Club selec­tion Here on Earth, The Muse­um of Extra­or­di­nary Things, and The Dove­keep­ers. She lives near Boston.