Alice Thompson
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For other people named Alice Thompson, see Alice Thompson (disambiguation).
Alice Thompson (born in Edinburgh) is a Scottish novelist.[1][2][3][4]
Thompson was educated at St George's School, Edinburgh,[5] then read English at Oxford University and wrote her Ph.D. thesis on Henry James. In the 1980s she was the keyboard player with rock band The Woodentops.[5] She has a son, and lives in Edinburgh. Her novel Justine was the joint winner of the 1996 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.[6] She also won a Creative Scotland Award[6] in 2000, and was a Writer in Residence in Shetland.[7]