Helen DeWitt

Helen DeWitt is an American novelist born in 1957, whose books include the novels The Last Samurai (2000) and Lightning Rods (2011). She also wrote the short story collection Some Trick (2018). Her novel Your Name Here, which she co-wrote with Ilya Gridneff and first published on her own website in 2008, was brought out as a commercial book in 2025.