Bestselling author Alice Hoffman, best-known for Practical Magic, which became the cult classic film of the same name, is turning her pen toward an important historical figure like we've never seen ...

Ambo Anthos Publishers said it would delay printing more copies. HarperCollins, the book’s publisher in the United States, declined to comment. By Nina Siegal AMSTERDAM — The Dutch publisher of “The ...

Wolves stalk the edges of “When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary,” Hoffman’s researched imagining of Frank’s life in Amsterdam from 1940 to 1942. Handout/Scholastic Press/TNS When ...

When an editor asked Alice Hoffman to write a novel about Anne Frank, the prolific author didn’t think of the complexity of the research or the enormity of the subject matter. She just thought of ...

New York — With the cooperation of the Anne Frank House, a novel based on Frank's life immediately before she began keeping a diary will be released in September by the children's publisher Scholastic ...

Sometimes, early in the experience of reading a book, I will get a sensation that I may be in the presence of a classic. It’s tough to say what triggers this sensation. I remember experiencing it ...

Her diary overflows with her devotion to books and movies. But after rereading the entries, a critic was struck by how often she writes about music. By Anthony Tommasini Freed from Auschwitz, she was ...

The Hague, Netherlands — A group of Dutch historians has published an in-depth criticism of the work and conclusion of a cold case team that said it had pieced together the "most likely scenario" of ...