marvelous book from cover to cover in an afternoon". Bibliography Novels and novellas The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax Books/Chatto & Windus, 2000; ) Your Name Here (co-written with Ilya Gridneff). Was available for purchase as a PDF from DeWitt's website at one time, but remains otherwise unpublished. Lightning Rods (New Directions, 2011; And Other Stories, 2012; ) The English Understand Wool (New Directions, 2022) Short stories Some Trick: Thirteen Stories (New York: New Directions, 2018; ) References External links Helen DeWitt’s First Time | The Paris Review (YouTube) 1957 births American expatriates in Brazil American expatriates in Germany American expatriates in Mexico 20th-century American novelists Living people Novelists from Maryland Smith College alumni Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford 21st-century American novelists People from Takoma Park, Maryland American women novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers Northfield Mount Hermon School alumni Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford