![]() ![]() ![]() Following the success of the book, she began to write Left Neglected, released 2011, about a woman suffering from an unusual cognitive condition known as left neglect and how this affects her life. It focuses on 50-year-old Alice Howland, who suffers from early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, quickly changing her view and relationship of the world and the people close to her. Her debut novel, Still Alice, was a bestseller that started her career as a writer. ![]() She has three children, and currently lives in Cape Cod. ![]() Genova’s next two books Left Neglected, and Love Anthony were both published by traditional publishers. There is also a film adaptation in the works, starring Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, and Julianne Moore. It spent over 40 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and has been translated into 25 different languages. Genova self-published her book in 2007 with iUniverse, and it was picked up by Simon & Schuster in 2009, and published by Pocket Books. Lisa Genova is a trained neuroscientist whose debut novel, Still Alice, is about a woman with an early onset form of Alzheimer’s, who has to learn to cope with the way her life is changing. ![]()
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