Abigail Thomas and Alison Hart
Abigail Thomas and Alison Hart
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 21
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. Her books include: two books of short stories, a novel, An Actual Life, and the memoirs Safekeeping and A Three Dog Life. She will read from her latest book Thinking About Memoir.
Alison Hart received her MFA from The New School. She has written for USA Today and HBO, and she is the co-curator of the reading series at Pete's Candy Store in Williamsburg.
