I think of the'60s and'70s as my time period, it was when I began listening to Dylan and going to Greenwich Village and I lived for a while in Northern California. It was such a chaotic time, with so much violence. Our country was divided, and it was nearly impossible to talk to someone' on the other side.' At the same time, people were fighting for their rights, and they came together in an amazing way.

Alice Hoffman

Alice Hoffman (born March 16, 1952) is an American novelist and young-adult and children's writer, best known for her 1996 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Her 2000 novel The River King was made into a 2005 film starring Edward Burns and Jennifer Ehle. Her 2001 novel Aquamarine was made into a 2006 film starring Joanna "JoJo" Levesque, Emma Roberts and Sara Paxton. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships

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