Abigail Thomas (born 1941) is an American novelist, poet, and memoirist.
Thomas married at 18 and became pregnant, resulting in her expulsion from Bryn Mawr College in 1959, when she was told by the dean that "her education was obviously over."
An accidental injury to her husband resulted in his increasing mental disability, and they divorced in 1977.
[2] Thomas became a literary agent at Viking Press, working in that capacity until 1992.
Newspapers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post have published essays by Thomas.