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Helen DeWitt was born in a suburb of Washington, DC. Daughter of American diplomats, she grew up mainly in Latin America, living in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador. She went to Oxford to study classics for a BA and D.Phil. She left academia to try to write a novel, moving eventually to London and acquiring UK citizenship. She has been based in Berlin since 2004, but also spends time at a cottage in the woods of Vermont improving her chainsaw skills.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

The Last Samurai

Lightning Rods

Recovery

Recovery

Short story

Some Trick

Some Trick

Short story collection

The English Understand Wool

Your Name Here

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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