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Abigail Thomas


Abigail Thomas Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of 12. Her academic education stopped when, pregnant with her oldest daughter, she was asked to leave Bryn Mawr during her first year. She's lived most of her life on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and was for a time a book editor and for another time a book agent. Then she started writing for publication.

Her fifth book, A Three Dog Life, was named one of the best books of 2006 by the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. She is also the author of the novel An Actual Life; two story collections, Getting Over Tom and Herb's Pajamas; and another memoir, Safekeeping. She teaches fiction writing in the graduate program at The New School and lives in Woodstock, New York, to be near her husband, Rich.

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