Alice Sebold's first published book was a memoir of her rape as an eighteen-year-old college freshman. Titled Lucky because one of the policemen told her that she was lucky to be alive--not long before Sebold's attack, another young woman had been...

Alice Sebold became a household name in 2004 when her novel "Lovely Bones" was published. From heaven, a girl brutally raped and murdered tells the story of how her family copes. Heavy, yes, but it was so beautifully written that it was a bestseller,...

"People ask me about heaven a lot," says Alice Sebold, a bit weary of fielding metaphysical questions. When people identity her too closely with Susie Salmon, the protagonist of her phenomenally successful novel, The Lovely Bones, Sebold has to remind them she has...

Barnes & Noble.com is getting a new look. Starting Monday, the online site for the superstore chain will have a thoroughly revised home page, including a running scroll of featured releases, and a number of new offerings, including Barnes & Noble Review, a magazine that...

It was the "confession" that nobody wanted to read in 2007 — at least until they had the chance to read it.O.J. Simpson's "If I Did It," vilified when first announced a year ago, dropped by HarperCollins, then issued this fall by tiny Beaufort Books,...

Lucky, by Alice Sebold, is a poignant, inspirational memoir of a young college student's struggle to overcome a terrible rape that drastically changed her life.