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A few years ago, I started teaching a class on trauma. The concept is everywhere these days, so the main challenge in building the syllabus was not what to put in but what to leave out. Yet there was ...

The note she placed above her desk as she was writing the novel was an admonition of what she needed to remember in the midst of telling what could have been a grim story. But the note also captured ...

The Almost Moon (Little, Brown) Alice Sebold wrote The Lovely Bones, one of the most beloved and lovable books in recent years. How did she prepare herself for the onslaught she'll face with The ...

The lawmaker, State Senator Steve Halloran, was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats for referring to two Democrats as he read the passage on the floor of the Capitol. By Maya King A ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a Syracuse University student has settled a lawsuit against New York ...

New York state has agreed to pay $5.5 million to the man who spent 16 years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of raping writer Alice Sebold when she was a student at Syracuse University. His ...

Author Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: Her novel The Lovely Bones, soon to be filmed by director Peter Jackson, centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape ...