Abigail DeWitt
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Abigail DeWitt

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Born in North Carolina in 1959, Abigail DeWitt is a dual citizen of France and the United States, and the daughter of two theoretical physicists. She grew up partly in the Alps, where her mother ran an institute for physicists, and partly in North Carolina, Texas, and California. Drawing on family stories—in particular, her mother’s experiences in WWII—she frequently writes about war, immigration, and survival, seeking the small, often paradoxical moments in the midst of major historical events. Described as “engrossing and ambitious” by the NY Times Book Review, her fiction has received awards from the James A. Michener Society, the McColl Center for the Arts, the Tyrone Guthrie Center at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, the North Carolina Arts Council, and elsewhere. Educated at Harvard and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she's the author of three novels, LILI, DOGS, and NEWS OF OUR LOVED ONES, as well as short stories and essays which have appeared in Narrative, LitHub, the LA Review of Books, the Alaska Quarterly Review, Five Points, Witness, and many other publications. Her day jobs have included teaching French and creative writing, working as a janitor, waitressing, housecleaning, and, most recently, helping to develop a writing program for women veterans.
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