Cel­e­brate Jew­ish Book Month with #30days30authors! In hon­or of the 90th anniver­sary of Fan­ny Gold­stein’s trib­ute to Jew­ish books in the West End’s branch of the Boston Pub­lic Library, Jew­ish Book Coun­cil invit­ed 30 lead­ing authors, one for each day of the month, to answer a few ques­tions.




Alice Hoff­man is the author of more than thir­ty works of fic­tion, includ­ing 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.


Alice Hoff­man is the high­ly acclaimed author of over twen­ty nov­els for read­ers of all ages, includ­ing The World That We Knew, Illu­mi­na­tion Night, Sev­enth Heav­en, Prac­ti­cal Mag­ic, Here on Earth, The Fore­telling, Incan­ta­tion, and, most recent­ly, The Sto­ry Sis­ters and The Red Gar­den. Her pre­vi­ous nov­els for Scholas­tic Press are Aqua­ma­rine, which was made into a major motion pic­ture, Indi­go, Green Witch, and Green Angel, which Pub­lish­ers Week­ly, in a boxed, starred review, called aching­ly love­ly.” She lives out­side of Boston.