Abigail Thomas
Abigail Thomas, the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell, etc.), is the mother of four children and the grandmother of twelve. 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. She is the author of two short story collections, Getting Over Tom and Herb's Pajamas; a novel An Actual Life; and two memoirs, Safekeeping, and A Three Dog Life. A Three Dog Life was selected by the LA Times and Washington Post as one of the best books of 2006. Her next book, Thinking About Memoir, will be published in April 2008.