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Author Abigail Thomas to visit Governor's School
For Immediate Release
Memoirist behind "A Three Dog Life" to read works Tuesday, April 6 at 7 pm
GREENVILLE, SC - A reading with guest author Abigail Thomas will be held at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities, Tuesday, April 6 at 7 pm on the school's Loggia.
The reading is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Interested persons should call 864.282.3945 to request seating. Thomas will visit Creative Writing classrooms at the Governor's School on April 6 and 7. Her visit to the Governor's School is part of the 2010 Surdna Guest Artist Series, sponsored by a grant from the Surdna Foundation.
Thomas has written three works of fiction: Getting Over Tom; An Actual Life; and, Herb's Pajamas. She has also written three memoirs: Safekeeping; A Three Dog Life; and, Thinking About Memoir. A Three Dog Life was chosen by the Washington Post and the LA Times as one of the best books of 2006 and has been translated into nine languages.
Her essays and stories have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, O the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Tin House, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Ladies' Home Journal, The Missouri Review, the Alaska Quarterly and other magazines.
Thomas is the daughter of renowned science writer Lewis Thomas (The Lives of a Cell, etc.), 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 of college. She lived most of her life on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and worked as a book editor and a book agent. She lives in Woodstock, New York, with her three dogs.
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