Deborah Williams

Deborah Lindsay Williams earned her PhD in literature from New York University, where she also taught in the Expository Writing Program. She has been a literature and writing professor for more than twenty-five years, including eleven years at NYU Abu Dhabi. Her books include Not in Sisterhood (Palgrave) about early twentieth-century women writers; The Necessity of Young Adult Fiction (Oxford) about reading and citizenship; and The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume Eight: US Fiction Since 1940 (co-edited with Cyrus R. K. Patell). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Rumpus, The Paris Review Daily, Brevity, Inside Higher Ed, and Lit Hub, as well as many other publications.