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First appearance | Pretty Little Liars (2006) |
Created by | Sara Shepard |
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Full name | Alison Lauren DiLaurentis |
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Occupation | "A" (novel-only) English teacher at Rosewood Day School (television-only) (formerly) Teaching assistant at Beacon Heights University (currently) |
Affiliation | The Liars |
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Education | Rosewood Day School (formerly, graduated) Hollis College (formerly, graduated) |
Alison Lauren DiLaurentis is a fictional character in the Pretty Little Liars book series, its television adaptation, and the spin-off series Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. The character was created by American author Sara Shepard.
In the beginning of both the books and the television series, Alison is a central character who is shown mostly in flashbacks.[1] The narrative is set when Alison mysteriously disappears and leaves the suburb of Rosewood shocked. Due to her position as a queen bee of Rosewood's social scene, Alison's actions and relations were constantly under scrutiny from the town's citizens. Sasha Pieterse, who portrays Alison on screen, has described the character as an indecisive person, showing herself as a ruthless, manipulative girl.[2] Due to the massive reformulation on the story's timing, pacing and overall narrative for the television adaptation, the on-screen Alison DiLaurentis holds various differences from her literary counterpart, such as the fact that the latter has an identical twin sister, while the former does not.