She self-published her debut novel, Still Alice (2007),[2] about a Harvard University professor who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
The book was adapted into a 2014 film with the same title, which won the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julianne Moore's highly acclaimed performance as Alice Howland.
Gallery Books published her next three novels, Left Neglected, Love Anthony, and Inside the O'Briens, all New York Times bestsellers.
Genova graduated valedictorian, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Bates College with a Bachelor of Science degree in biopsychology, and in 1998 she received a PhD in neuroscience from Harvard University.
[citation needed] Her first novel was Still Alice (2007), about a woman who suffers early-onset Alzheimer's disease.
The central character, Alice Howland, is a 50-year-old cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a world-renowned linguistics expert.
[9] The book was later adapted for the stage by Christine Mary Dunford for the Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago.
[13] Love Anthony, her third New York Times bestseller, was published by Gallery Books in September 2012.
[18] The award is bestowed by the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University.