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Helen DeWitt was born on 1957 in Takoma Park, Maryland, U.S., is an American writer. Discover Helen DeWitt's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 67 years old?
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Helen DeWitt Height, Weight & Measurements
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Helen DeWitt Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Helen DeWitt worth at the age of 67 years old? Helen DeWitt’s income source is mostly from being a successful Writer. She is from United States. We have estimated Helen DeWitt's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Helen DeWitt (born 1957) is an American novelist.
During this time she reportedly attempted to finish many novels, before finally completing The Last Samurai, her 50th manuscript, in 1998.
In 1999, DeWitt had completed another novel, Lightning Rods, and later signed a contract for it with Miramax Books in 2003, but it remained unpublished and in limbo.
She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai (2000) and Lightning Rods (2011) and the short story collection Some Trick (2018) and, in collaboration with the Australian journalist Ilya Gridneff, has written
DeWitt grew up primarily in Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador ), as her parents worked in the United States diplomatic service.
After a year at Northfield Mount Hermon School and two short periods at Smith College, DeWitt studied classics at the University of Oxford, first at Lady Margaret Hall, and then at Brasenose College for her D.Phil., where her thesis examined the concept of propriety in ancient literary criticism.
Afterwards she became a junior research fellow at Somerville College.
DeWitt is best known for her debut novel, The Last Samurai.
She held a variety of jobs while struggling to finish a book, including dictionary text tagger, copytaker, Dunkin' Donuts employee, legal secretary, and working at a laundry service.
It was published in 2000 by Talk Miramax Books.
In 2005 she collaborated with Ingrid Kerma, the London-based painter, writing "limit5" for the exhibition "Blushing Brides".
An excerpt from an in-progress novel set in Flin Flon, Manitoba, has been published online by Open Book: Ontario at the end of an article about the novel and DeWitt's difficulties in finding a publisher.
After Miramax Books was folded into Hyperion Books in late 2007, she asked for the rights to be returned.
It was eventually published in 2011 by New Directions.
Her short story "Climbers", which explores artistic ideals and commercial realities of the writing life, was published in Harper's magazine November 2014.
In 2018, a collection of thirteen of her short stories, Some Trick, was published by New Directions.
It was shortlisted for the 2019 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize.
DeWitt published a novella, The English Understand Wool, in 2022.
The novella was published as part of a new series from New Directions Publishing, "Storybook ND", which aims to deliver "the pleasure one felt as a child reading a marvelous book from cover to cover in an afternoon".
