Abigail Grotke

Haunted by a charm school class in junior high school and the inability to do her own hair or apply makeup, Miss Abigail (also known as Abigail Grotke) has been collecting classic advice books for over twenty-five years. She has an extensive background in print and digital publications and a keen interest in historical materials and pop culture, not to mention a love of crawling around dirty used bookstores to find the perfect book to add to her collection. She has combined selections of advice from her books with witty commentary to create her award-winning Web site, Miss Abigail's Time Warp Advice, and a high-profile weekly column for the London Times Magazine from September 2001 through February 2003. During the day, she works on digital library projects for the Library of Congress, and has previously worked in the publications office of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. In 2004 she was named one of Library Journal's "Movers and Shakers," an annual feature, which sets out to identify "emerging leaders in the Library world." She lives in Maryland, with her husband Denis Malloy and their terrier mutt.

Visit http://www.MissAbigail.com for more information and to see the site that started it all!