Anthony "Tony" S. Abbott was an American college professor and writer.
[1] He received the North Carolina Award for Literature in 2015, the highest award bestowed to a civilian by the State of North Carolina.
[2] In 2020, he was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
[3] Abbott was born on January 7, 1935, in San Francisco, California.
The book of poetry The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat received a Pulitzer Prize nomination.