Alice LaPlante is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction.^[2] She is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and Professor of Creative writing at San Francisco State University.^[3] She won the Wellcome Book Prize in 2011.

LaPlante grew up in Chicago.^[4] She attended Stanford University, where she earned a degree in English Literature.^{[citation needed]}

LaPlante started writing as a journalist and later, an author. She wrote for several technology periodicals including IBM, HP, Oracle, Microsoft, and Sunsoft.^[1] She taught creative writing at Stanford University and San Francisco State University.^[5]

LaPlante's debut novel, Turn of Mind (2011), received critical acclaim and won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize in 2011.^[6] Her writing style and narrative techniques were praised for authenticity and emotional depth.^[7] She has also written short stories in literary journals such as Epoché and Southwest Review..^{[citation needed]} She wrote Method and Madness: The Making of a Story, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing.^[8]

In 2014 LaPlante published her novel, A Circle of Wives.^[9] In 2018, she published Half Moon Bay.^[10]

• Laplante, Alice (2011). Turn of Mind. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802145901.
• A Circle of Wives. Atlantic Monthly Press. March 4, 2014. p. 325. ISBN 978-0802122346.
• Coming of Age at the End of Days. Audible Studios. 2015. ISBN 978-1-5113-5772-2.
• Half Moon Bay. Scribner. 10 July 2018. ISBN 978-1-5011-9088-9.