David Abbott

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David Abbott

As one of advertising’s most graceful writers, David Abbott brought a literary elegance to copy promoting even the most mundane products. Since leaving Abbott Mead Vickers two years ago, he’s been honing those instincts while writing his first novel. He allows that he didn’t want to “exchange one set of deadlines of 40 years for another,” but the 62-year-old nonetheless treats his fiction as a job. He’s out the door at 8 a.m.

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