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. A Three Dog Life is her fifth book; the most recent, Safekeeping, is also a memoir. She teaches fiction writing in the graduate program at The New School and lives in Woodstock, New York, to be near her husband, Rich.