Beyond the Book:
Alzheimer's Disease & Alice LaPlante

Alzheimer's Disease
For more information about Alzheimer's, see the backstory to Still Alice.

Alice LaPlante
Alice LaPlante's debut novel, Turn of Mind has received an overwhelming amount of praise and has been selected by Indie Booksellers for the July 2011 Indie Next List.

Though this is her first novel, LaPlante is certainly no stranger to writing. For over 20 years she has worked as an award-winning journalist, a corporate editorial consultant (for IBM, HP, Oracle, Microsoft, Sun, Deloitte, Symantec, and Palm, among others), and has taught writing at the university level. She has written for Forbes ASAP, BusinessWeek, ComputerWorld, InformationWeek, and Discover, in addition to many other national publications, and she currently teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Stanford University, where she was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and held a Jones Lectureship. She has a B.A. in Rhetoric and an MBA from the University of Illinois in Urbana.

LaPlante is the author (or co-author) of the following books:

• Turn of Mind (2011)


• The Making of a Story: A Norton Guide to Creative Writing (2010)


• Method and Madness: The Making of a Story (2009)


• Passion to Profits: Business for Non-Business Majors (2008)


• Dear Saint Anne, Send Me a Man: And Other Time-honored Prayers for Love (2002)


• Playing For Profit: How Digital Entertainment is Making Big Business Out of Child's Play (2000)


• Heaven Help Us: The Worrier's Guide to the Patron Saints (1999)

This article was originally published in July 2011, and has been updated for the May 2012 paperback release. Click here to go to this issue.

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