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When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

Alice Hoffman

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Alice Hoffman
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: March 16
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Feel
Adolescence
Feels
Bones
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Straight
World
Cutting
Emotional
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Character
Bare
Everything
Teens

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