Bach, Alice

Alice Bach was born April 6, 1942, in New York City. She received her B.A. in 1963 from Barnard College, and started her career as an assistant editor for Random House Publishing Company in 1964. In 1966 she became an associate editor at Harper and Row Publishing, Inc., and then senior editor for Books for Young Readers at Dial Press in 1969. In 1973 she became a consultant for the Beford-Stuyvesant Writers' Workshop; beginning in 1979 she spent two years as an adjunct professor of creative writing at New York University's School for Continuing Education. Bach maintained memberships in the Authors' Guild, the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, and the American Fern Society.

One of Bach's novels, Mollie Make Believe (not included in this collection), was cited by the New York Times as one of the best books of the year in 1974. She received the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1976 and 1977, as well as the American Library Association Notable Book Award for her novel, Waiting for Johnny Miracle, a book about young cancer patients.

Besides writing juvenile fiction, Bach was a contributor of book reviews and articles to such periodicals as the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and Publishers Weekly .