Alice Parizeau est née le 25 juillet 1927 à Luniniec, Brest, Poland (now Bielorussia). Elle était mariée à Jacques Parizeau. Elle est morte le 30 septembre 1990 au Québec, Canada.
Criminologist, journalist and author., her mother was a concert pianist and her father an industrialist. Résistante, she was interned at Bergen-Belsen and was decorated after WWII for her actions.