In 1996 or 1997, she began writing a novel about the rape and murder of an adolescent girl. Writing of Lucky Īfter the rape, Sebold was traumatized and struggled to make sense of life for at least ten years. Broadwater was released in 1999, and remained on New York's sex offender registry. Because he would not admit to the attack, he was denied parole five times. The man, Anthony Broadwater, ultimately served 16 years in prison, maintaining his innocence throughout. Five months later, while walking down a street near the Syracuse campus, she encountered a man whom she believed to be the rapist. She reported the crime to campus security and the police, who took her statement and investigated, but could not identify any suspects. In the early hours of May 8, 1981, while Sebold was a freshman at Syracuse University, she was assaulted and raped while walking home through a tunnel to an amphitheater near campus. She earned an MFA from the University of California, Irvine in 1998. Sebold left New York for Southern California, where she became a caretaker of an artists' colony, earning $386 a month and living in a cabin in the woods without electricity. She held several waitressing jobs while pursuing a writing career, but neither her poetry nor her attempts at writing a novel came to fruition. Īfter graduating in 1984, she briefly attended the University of Houston in Texas, for graduate school, then moved to Manhattan for the next 10 years. Also among her professors were Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, and Hayden Carruth.
Among her professors was Tess Gallagher, who became one of Sebold's confidantes. Her father was unable to gain admission for her into the University of Pennsylvania, so Sebold attended Syracuse University instead, where she earned her bachelor's degree. Sebold graduated from Great Valley High School in Malvern, Pennsylvania, in 1980. While they were young, Sebold and her older sister, Mary, often had to take care of their mother, a journalist for a local paper, who suffered from panic attacks and drank heavily. She grew up in the Paoli suburb of Philadelphia, where her father taught Spanish at the University of Pennsylvania.
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