Background
Helen DeWitt was born in 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States; the daughter of John DeWitt. The DeWitts are a military family, and the family lived between Gainesville and points south, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador.
1975
Northampton, MA 01063, United Kingdom
Helen DeWitt studied at Smith College in 1975.
1990
Helen DeWitt
2014
Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt
One Lamplighter Way, Gill, MA 01354, United States
Helen DeWitt attended Northfield Mount Hermon School.
Oxford OX1 2JD, United Kingdom
From 1988 to 1989, Helen DeWitt studied at the University of Oxford, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree and later a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Classics.
Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6HD, United Kingdom
Helen DeWitt was a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College.
(Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, fi...)
Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill and Yo Yo Ma claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. Lacking male role models for a fatherless boy, Sibylla turns to endless replays of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. But Ludo is obsessed with the one thing he wants and doesn’t know: his father’s name. At eleven, inspired by his own take on the classic film, he sets out on a secret quest for the father he never knew. He’ll be punched, sliced, and threatened with retribution. He may not live to see twelve. Or he may find a real samurai and save a mother who thinks boredom a fate worse than death.
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2000
(Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave y...)
Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave you laughing for more. Follow one steady rise to power in corporate America as down-and-out salesman Joe curtails sexual harassment in the office and increases productivity with his mysterious, mind-blowing invention.
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2012
(For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to min...)
For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to mind, but no author alive today takes a reader as far as Helen DeWitt into the funniest, most far-reaching dimensions of possibility. Her jumping-off points might be statistics, romance, the art world’s piranha tank, games of chance and games of skill, the travails of publishing, or success.
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2018
Helen DeWitt was born in 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland, United States; the daughter of John DeWitt. The DeWitts are a military family, and the family lived between Gainesville and points south, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador.
Helen DeWitt attended Northfield Mount Hermon School and studied at Smith College. From 1988 to 1989, she studied at the University of Oxford, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree and later a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Classics. She also was a Junior Research Fellow at Somerville College.
At the beginning of her career, Helen DeWitt worked on the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, as a copy taker at The Telegraph, and as a night-shift legal secretary. In June 1995, she quit that job to finish what was then a 300-page single-spaced manuscript of a novel based on The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. In 2000, she wrote her first novel, The Last Samurai. In 2005, she wrote limit5 for the exhibition Blushing Brides, in collaboration with Ingrid Kerma, the London-based painter. Presently, DeWitt lives and works in Berlin. Her most recent writing, Some Trick: Thirteen Stories came out in 2018.
(For sheer unpredictable brilliance, Gogol may come to min...)
2018(Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, fi...)
2000(Helen DeWitt’s Lighting Rods is a novel that will leave y...)
2012Helen DeWitt was married to David Levene. Their marriage ended after seven years.