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3 unusual facts about Helen DeWitt


Helen DeWitt

Recently, rights to make a film of The Last Samurai have been optioned by Tom Dey.

She held a variety of jobs while struggling to finish a book, including a dictionary text tagger, a copytaker, and Dunkin' Donuts employee, she also worked in a laundry service.

An excerpt from an in-progress novel set in Flin Flon Manitoba has been published by Open Book: Ontario at the end of an article about the novel and DeWitt's difficulties in finding a publisher.



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