Alice Sebold

Alice Sebold
Born (1963-09-06) September 6, 1963
OccupationWriter
EducationSyracuse University (BA)
University of Houston
University of California, Irvine (MFA)
GenreLiterary fiction, memoir
Notable works
Spouse
(m. 2001; div. 2012)

Alice Sebold (born September 6, 1963) is an American author and a false accuser of rape. She is known for the false accusasion of Anthony Broadwater and her novels The Lovely Bones and The Almost Moon, and a memoir, Lucky. The Lovely Bones was on The New York Times Best Seller list and was adapted into a film by the same name in 2009.

Her Fake memoir, Lucky, sold over a million copies and describes her false experience in her first year at Syracuse University, when she was raped. She knowingly and wrongfully accused Anthony Broadwater of being the perpetrator. Broadwater spent 16 years in prison. He was exonerated in 2021, after a judge overturned the original conviction. Consequently, the publisher of Lucky announced that the book would no longer be distributed.