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She grew up mainly in South America. She started a degree at Smith College in 1975 and dropped out twice, the first time to read Eliot and Proust, the second time to go to Oxford to study classics and philosophy. She received a B. A. at Lady <a class="showlessmore_link" id="u_d6189_showmore" onclick="truncate_show('u_d6189')" >show more</a><span class="hideme" id="u_d6189"> Margaret Hall and a doctorate at Brasenose, then spent a year as junior research fellow at Somerville before deciding to give up academic life in 1989. She now lives in England. (Bowker Author Biography)</span> <a class="hideme showlessmore_link" id="u_d6189_showless" onclick="truncate_show('u_d6189')" >show less</a></div><div class="author_aka tinytext"><p class="alsoknownas">Includes the names: <span id="u_75db61a7" class="lt_itemlist"><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/helendewitt&norefer=2">Helen DeWitt</a>, </span><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/witthelende&norefer=2">Helen De Witt</a>, </span><span class="ltil_item " ><a href="/author/1464064617&norefer=2">Хелен Девитт</a></span></span></p></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_mainworks" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_9d18" data-caret-id="tdc_u_9d18" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_f4c2" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("mainworks", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="mainworks" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_9d18" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Works by Helen DeWitt</h2><span id="tdh_u_f4c2" ><a name="mainworks"></a><div class="section_controls"><div data-value="0" class="lt_pillbox lt_blend_nav small lt_small" id="recent_pillbox" ><a data-value="0" data-onclick="lt.newauthor.sortWorks('dewitthelen', 0);" role="button" class="selected" ><span class="ltp_txt">Popular</span></a class="" ><a data-value="1" data-onclick="lt.newauthor.sortWorks('dewitthelen', 1);" role="button" class="" ><span class="ltp_txt">Recent</span></a class="" ></div class="" ></div><div class="worklist"><div id="u_12d5b7e9" class="lt_itemlist list"><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/417" data-workid="417" data-title="The-Last-Samurai" class="" >The Last Samurai</a> <span class="date">(2000)</span> <span class="copies note">2,023 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 59 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/11478186" data-workid="11478186" data-title="Lightning-Rods" class="" >Lightning Rods</a> <span class="date">(2011)</span> <span class="copies note">397 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 28 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/28271307" data-workid="28271307" data-title="The-English-Understand-Wool" class="" >The English Understand Wool</a> <span class="date">(2022)</span> <span class="copies note">308 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 8 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/20929299" data-workid="20929299" data-title="Some-Trick-Thirteen-Stories" class="" >Some Trick: Thirteen Stories</a> <span class="date">(2018)</span> <span class="copies note">240 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 8 reviews</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/5882677" data-workid="5882677" data-title="Your-Name-Here" class="" >Your Name Here</a> <span class="copies note">9 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/32887417" data-workid="32887417" data-title="%D0%9F%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9-Russian-Edition" class="" >Последний самурай (Russian Edition)</a> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/19727194" data-workid="19727194" data-title="Takahiko-Iimura-at-the-Lux-Film-Video-CD-Rom-Installation" class="" >Takahiko Iimura at the Lux-Film, Video, CD-Rom, Installation</a> <span class="date">(1998)</span> <span class="copies note">1 copy</span></div></div></div><div class="flex_center"><a value="Work Explorer " value="Work Explorer " class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn btn_rollover_primary btn-lozenge extra_top_space_half btn-sm btn-default" type="button" role="button" href="/author/dewitthelen/workexplorer" ><span class="btntxt">Work Explorer <i class="fa-solid fa-angle-right"></i></span></a></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_alsoby" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_d1dc" data-caret-id="tdc_u_d1dc" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_05fe" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("alsoby", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="alsoby" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_d1dc" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Associated Works</h2><span id="tdh_u_05fe" ><a name="alsoby"></a><div class="worklist"><div id="u_bf4ace96" class="lt_itemlist list"><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/12433174" data-workid="12433174" data-title="Significant-Objects-100-Extraordinary-Stories-about-Ordinary-Things" class="" >Significant Objects: 100 Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things</a> <span class="date">(2012)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">58 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/17110675" data-workid="17110675" data-title="Anatomy-of-Melancholy-the-best-of-A-Softer-World" class="" >Anatomy of Melancholy: the best of A Softer World</a> <span class="date">(2016)</span> — Introduction — <span class="copies note">46 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/4595191" data-workid="4595191" data-title="n%2B1-Number-Six-Mainstream" class="" >n+1, Number Six: Mainstream</a> <span class="date">(2007)</span> <span class="copies note">21 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div><div class="ltil_item " > <a href="/work/11791126" data-workid="11791126" data-title="n%2B1-Issue-12-Fall-2011-Conversion-Experience" class="" >n+1 Issue 12, Fall 2011: Conversion Experience</a> <span class="date">(2011)</span> — Contributor — <span class="copies note">9 copies</span><span class="reviews note">, 1 review</span></div></div></div></span></section><section class="w_a_section" id="section_tags" ><h2 class="lt_turndown" id="u_1659" data-caret-id="tdc_u_1659" data-hidden-id="tdh_u_a000" data-visible="1" onclick="lt.newauthor.saveSticky("tags", event);;lt.turndown_toggle(this, event);" href="javascript:void(0);" data-duration="200" data-name="tags" data-group="worksections" ><i class="fa-solid fa-chevron-up turndown_indicator" id="tdc_u_1659" data-turndown-style="chevron" ></i>Tagged</h2><span id="tdh_u_a000" ><a name="tags"></a><a name="rating"></a><div class="section_controls"><button id="relatedtagsarea_snb" value="Numbers" value="Numbers" class="func_lt2_display_ui lt2button btn btn-sm btn-default" type="button" role="button" onclick="tagcloud_showTagNumbers('relatedtagsarea');" ><span class="btntxt">Numbers</span></button></div><div id="relatedtagsarea" class="hidecount"><div class="tags tagcloud_tags" xstyle="line-height: 2.5em;"> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 0.8em;"><a href="/tag/2023" target="_top">2023</a><span class="count"> (8)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 0.8em;"><a href="/tag/20th%20century" target="_top">20th century</a><span class="count"> (8)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="/tag/21st%20century" target="_top">21st century</a></b><span class="count"> (18)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 1.4em;"><a href="/tag/American" target="_top">American</a><span class="count"> (20)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 2.1em;"><b><a href="/tag/American%20literature" target="_top">American literature</a></b><span class="count"> (38)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 1em;"><b><a href="/tag/bildungsroman" target="_top">bildungsroman</a></b><span class="count"> (11)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 1em;"><b><a href="/tag/childhood" target="_top">childhood</a></b><span class="count"> (11)</span> </span> <span class="tag" style="font-size: 1.1em;"><a href="/tag/contemporary" target="_top">contemporary</a><span class="count"> (13)</span> </span> <span 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name="common_knowledge"></a><div id="fwikiContainerTablediv"><dl class="loving comfort joined"><dt>Canonical name</dt><dd><a target="_top" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?f=22&exact=1&type=2&q=DeWitt, Helen" data-fieldtype="22" class="" >DeWitt, Helen</a></dd><dt>Birthdate</dt><dd><a target="_top" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?f=8&exact=1&type=2&q=1957" data-fieldtype="8" class="" >1957</a></dd><dt>Gender</dt><dd><a target="_top" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?f=5&exact=1&type=2&q=female" data-fieldtype="5" class="" >female</a></dd><dt>Nationality</dt><dd><a target="_top" href="/commonknowledge/search.php?f=18&exact=1&type=2&q=USA" data-fieldtype="18" class="" >USA</a></dd><dt>Birthplace</dt><dd><a target="_top" href="/place/Takoma Park, Maryland, USA" data-fieldtype="44" class="" >Takoma Park, Maryland, USA</a></dd><dt>Places of residence</dt><dd><a target="_top" href="/place/London, England, UK" data-fieldtype="6" class="" >London, England, UK</a><br><a target="_top" 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srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0786887001.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0786887001.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/417" data-workid="417" data-title="The-Last-Samurai" class="" >The Last Samurai</a> by <a href="/author/dewitthelen">Helen Dewitt</a></div></div><div class="" >LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!!!</div class="" ><span id="rate-u_e2ce2ba7" title="5 Stars" aria-title="5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="10" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="9" class="fas fa-star 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class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_270766990" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/11478186" data-workid="11478186" data-title="Lightning-Rods" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811219437.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811219437.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811219437.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/11478186" data-workid="11478186" data-title="Lightning-Rods" class="" >Lightning Rods</a> by <a href="/author/dewitthelen">Helen DeWitt</a></div></div><div class="showmore" id="u_9164531a" >I bought and read this because it had appeared on a New York Times list of “22 of the Funniest Novels Since ‘Catch-22’” earlier this year, and while it held some promise early on, it rather quickly became too one-note and couldn’t sustain itself over 273(!) pages. <br><br>DeWitt’s writing is wickedly satirical and I liked the sprinkling of actual wisdom about the business world amidst its outrageous and absolutely filthy premise. The book peaks early in a chapter called Special <u class="showmore_hide">K, with its observations about needing to accept things for what they are, human guilt and the urge to dominate, and how those things relate to sales, while dropping in humor like “You take a bunch of guys and maybe for some of them The Man was Elvis, and for some of them it was Jimi Hendrix, and for some of them it was Kurt Cobain, but the thing they all have in common is that they would never sing, ‘Everything is beautiful in its own way’ unless someone held a gun to their head (and maybe not even then).”<br><br>The trouble is that the variations on the premise were as uninteresting as they were unappealing, and there were so many retrograde ideas floating about in here that I suppose were meant to be funny, but which seemed rather close to being accepted as truisms. The performance of “alpha males” does improve, some of the women in these degrading positions go on to highly successful careers, politicians who use the service now follow through with their campaign promises, etc. The variations in pigmentation among Caucasians that would compromise anonymity is completely ignored, as if “white” is a single thing, but for African Americans it’s called out. The “Mexicans and Nicaraguans” are equated with the “very cheapest materials” in a competitor, whereas the inventor’s titular service only uses the “highest quality of staff.” <br><br>Now that’s probably all meant as part of the satire, but as those kinds of views are unfortunately still held and the satire doesn’t go even further in these directions as exaggeration or provide a challenge, it doesn’t always seem to be mocking them. Regardless, it wasn’t very enjoyable reading over its second half. This would have been much better as a short story or a novella.<br><br>Just this quote, on men:<br>“One of the things that can put on a strain on a relationship, after all, is that men tend to equate a relationship with sex on demand.”</u><span class="showmore_showlink">… (<a href="#" onclick="showMore('u_9164531a');">more</a>)</span></div class="" ><span id="rate-u_95eefa96" title="2.5 Stars" aria-title="2.5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="5" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="0" class="ratehalf selected" >½</i><i data-rating_value="8" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i><i data-rating_value="10" class=" fas fa-star empty" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_270766990" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_270766990">1</span> <img title="1 member found this review helpful" id="rvi_270766990" alt="vote" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/voteup-y.gif"></span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_270766990" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_270766990" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_270766990" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_270766990"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/gbill" target="_top">gbill</a> | <a href="/work/11478186/reviews" data-workid="11478186" data-title="Lightning-Rods" class="" >27 other reviews</a> | Aug 28, 2024 | <a href="/review/270766990"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_269295632" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/28271307" data-workid="28271307" data-title="The-English-Understand-Wool-Storybook-ND-Series" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811230074.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811230074.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811230074.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/28271307" data-workid="28271307" data-title="The-English-Understand-Wool-Storybook-ND-Series" class="" >The English Understand Wool (Storybook ND Series)</a> by <a href="/author/dewitthelen">Helen Dewitt</a></div></div><div class="" >2022. A great story. I don’t want to spoil anything. It doles out pieces of information in a delicious and surprising way, leaving one guessing until the end, and that’s the way it should be read. When it started out about fantastically rich people, I couldn’t imagine why I’d want to read it, but it turned out it was packed with little twists. Just read it. It doesn’t take long.</div class="" ><span id="rate-u_3dec8f6a" title="5 Stars" aria-title="5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="10" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="9" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_269295632" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_269295632"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_269295632" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_269295632" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_notreview"></i></span><span id="rfi2_269295632" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as abuse" class="fas fa-flag-alt reviewflags_abuse"></i></span></span></div><span id="rfrf_269295632"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/kylekatz" target="_top">kylekatz</a> | <a href="/work/28271307/reviews" data-workid="28271307" data-title="The-English-Understand-Wool-Storybook-ND-Series" class="" >7 other reviews</a> | Aug 8, 2024 | <a href="/review/269295632"><i class="fas fa-link"></i></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_263511414" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/28271307" data-workid="28271307" data-title="The-English-understand-wool" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811230074.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811230074.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/0811230074.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"><div class="postinfo"><a href="/work/28271307" data-workid="28271307" data-title="The-English-understand-wool" class="" >The English understand wool</a> by <a href="/author/dewitthelen">Helen DeWitt</a></div></div><div class="" >[b:The English Understand Wool|59468833|The English Understand Wool|Helen DeWitt|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1660942303l/59468833._SY75_.jpg|93673007]'s take on the writing/publishing game is easily one of my top books for this year for writing, topic, size (67pp), plot and wit "like a dry cork," as a blurb pointed out. Dewitt is at her best.</div class="" ><span id="rate-u_c63ad441" title="5 Stars" aria-title="5 Stars" class="rating rating-style-306 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><span class="rw"><input type="hidden" value="10" name="form_rating" id="form_rating"/></span><i data-rating_value="2" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="4" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="6" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="8" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i><i data-rating_value="9" class="fas fa-star selected" ></i></span></div><div id="rfd_263511414" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_263511414"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"><div id="reviewflags_given_263511414" class="reviewflags_given hideme">Flagged<span id="rfi1_263511414" class="hideme" > <i title="Flagged as not a review" class="fas fa-flag-alt 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