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"Abigail Thomas is a brilliant writer whose stories and memoirs I have loved for a long time. Now she has written a brilliant book about creating stories and memoirs, that is also a kind of memoir, rich with stories that made me sigh, laugh, wince with recognition, and actually even want to write. It is beautiful, charming, funny, painful, and will be of indescribable value and inspiration to anyone who wants to write anything."
ANNE LAMOTT


Abigail Thomas's new book, Thinking About Memoir was published by Sterling, April 2008.

A THREE DOG LIFE IS NOW AVAILABLE IN SOFTCOVER

A Three Dog Life was selected as one of the Best Books of 2006 by the LA Times and the Washington Post


Astonishing...an extraordinary, and horrific, love story Entertainment Weekly

“Bracingly honest” Vanity Fair
Original”  Newsday 
Perfectly honed”  Newsweek
SpellbindingElle
Startling”  O, The Oprah Magazine
Haunting”  People
“Stunning” Los Angeles Times Book Review
A high plain of true inspiration”  Booklist

Read the Reviews


Upcoming: A piece in an anthology called In The Fullness of Time, edited by Linda Guethe and Emily Upham (Atria, April 27, 2010). Many events through 2010.


"A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ABIGAIL THOMAS", FROM THE BLOG
CATCHING DAYS
Read here


UPCOMING WORKSHOPS & EVENTS WITH ABIGAIL THOMAS


March 30, 2011 (8 sessions in total)
New York, NY
Writing Your Memoir
92nd Street Y at Tribeca, 200 Hudson Street, link

May 1, 2011
Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at the USC Campus
Memoir: Lost & Found
Moderator/Interviewer/Introducer: Ms. Orli Low
Panelists: Mr. James Brown; Ms. Samantha Dunn;
Ms. Abigail Thomas; Mr. Mark Richard
Email, link

May 12, 2011, 8:15 p.m.
New York NY
92nd Street Y, Tribeca, info & tickets
A panel discussing In the Fullness of Time with Ntozake Shange, Vivian Gornick, Abigail Thomas, Emily Upham, and Linda Gravenson

June 9 - 12, 2011
Alta Lodge, UT
Writers @ Work 2011 Conference
Link, email

July 17 - 23, 2011
Portland, ME
Stonecoast Writers Workshop, phone
Contact Justin Tussing 207-228-8393, email, link

August 7 - 13, 2011
Westcliffe, CO
Wet Mountain Valley Writers' Workshop with Dorothy Allison and Abigail Thomas
Coyote Moon Lodge
Phone 719-783-9740, link, email


Past readings & events



Read an excerpt of A Three Dog Life

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