I knew very little about memoir when I began a graduate program in nonfiction. I thought I would study personal essays and narrative journalism. Most of my classmates, however, wrote memoir, works of ...

The publishers for Alice Sebold’s memoir, "Lucky," have pulled the title from shelves after a man was exonerated last week of the 1981 rape that was the basis for her book, Fox News has confirmed.

After having her book pulled from publishers and an entire movie deal scrapped, Alice Sebold — the author behind bestselling books The Lovely Bones and Lucky — has apologized to the man she falsely ...

Alice Sebold, the author whose 1999 memoir “Lucky” revisited the 1981 rape she suffered when she was a freshman in college, is apologizing to the man who spent 16 years behind bars for the crime, ...

While reading Alice Sebold’s 1999 memoir Lucky for the first time in about two decades, I was struck by the prevalence of apologies in the narrative. “I’m so sorry. You’re a good girl,” repeats the ...

Last week the 1982 rape conviction of Anthony J. Broadwater was overturned. Broadwater spent more than 16 years in a New York state prison after being convicted of raping Alice Sebold, the bestselling ...

Alice Sebold misidentified Anthony Broadwater as her rapist 40 years ago. He was exonerated last week, though he already served 16 years in prison for the crime. She wrote: "I want to say that I am ...

Author Alice Sebold has produced difficult books before: Her novel The Lovely Bones, soon to be filmed by director Peter Jackson, centers on a 14-year-old looking down from heaven after her own rape ...

FILE - Author Alice Sebold speaks at the Sunday Book and Author Breakfast at BookExpo America in New York on June 3, 2007. Sebold apologized Tuesday to Anthony Broadwater, 61, the man who was ...

New York plans to require composting of yard waste, like leaves, twigs and grass clippings. By James Barron Anthony J. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison after being wrongly convicted in the assault ...

How hard was it to crack the case that exonerated the man accused of raping Lovely Bones author Alice Sebold in 1981 when she was a college freshman in Syracuse? Mucciante did not chill out. He ...

Timothy Mucciante, a former lawyer convicted of fraud, helped exonerate Anthony Broadwater of rape in 2021. Soon after, their friendship fell apart. By Maria Cramer The lawmaker, State Senator Steve ...