Career
Abbott has taught at NYU, the State University of New York and New School University. In 2013 and 2014, she served as the John Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi. [5]
In 2002, Abbott published her first book, The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir. In it, Abbott challenges the archetypes of the "tough guy" and "femme fatale" common to noir literature. [6]
Three years later, Abbott published Die a Little , [7] the first of several novels presenting woman-centered takes on traditional noir tropes. [8] Set in midcentury Los Angeles, the story centered on Lora King, a schoolteacher whose brother Bill falls in love with Alice Steele, a former costumer for the film industry. Suspicious of Alice's motives and jealous of her hold over Bill, Lora sets out to investigate Alice's background, only to find herself pulled into the dark side of Hollywood.
In addition to literature, Abbott has written for major journals and newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times . She also writes a blog with novelist Sara Gran. [9]
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