Helen DeWitt
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Helen DeWitt is an American novelist. She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods and the short story collection Some Trick. In 2025, a novel which she co-wrote with Ilya Gridn
DeWitt in 2013
The Last Samurai (novel)
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The Last Samurai is the first novel by American writer Helen DeWitt. It follows a single mother and her young son, a child prodigy, who embarks on a quest to find his father. Despite selling well and
Helen DeWitt
…Helen DeWitt is an American novelist. She is the author of the novels The Last Samurai (2000) and Lightning Rods (2011) and the short story collection Some Trick (2018). In 2025, a novel which she co-wrote with Ilya Gridneff and published…
First edition