(b.Abbott received bachelor's and master's degrees from New Mexico State University. After studying at Columbia College, he earned his Master's of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas in 1977. In addition to lecturing on the art of fiction writing, Abbott has taught at several colleges, including Case Western Reserve University, Colorado College, Washington University, and Rice University. He is currently a Humanities Distinguished Professor in English at Ohio State University's main campus in Columbus, Ohio.
Collections
The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting (1980)
Love Is The Crooked Thing (1986)
Strangers in Paradise (1986)
Dreams of Distant Lives (1989)
The Company of Dogs (1990)
Living After Midnight (1991)
Wet Places At Noon (1997)
The Putt at the End of the World (2000) (with Dave Barry, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W Hall, Tami Hoag, Tim O'Brien, Ridley Pearson and Les Standiford)
All Things, All At Once (2006)
Love Is The Crooked Thing (1986)
Strangers in Paradise (1986)
Dreams of Distant Lives (1989)
The Company of Dogs (1990)
Living After Midnight (1991)
Wet Places At Noon (1997)
The Putt at the End of the World (2000) (with Dave Barry, Richard Bausch, James Crumley, James W Hall, Tami Hoag, Tim O'Brien, Ridley Pearson and Les Standiford)
All Things, All At Once (2006)
Chapter Books
Lee K Abbott recommends
The Gateway (2007)
T M McNally
"Lordy, what a wickedly wise writer T. M. McNally is. The Gateway is a terrific book, impatient and wrought up, a book that goes a long way toward answering this age-old question: Why do fools fall in love? Here are seven answers, each beguiling and break-neck and bedeviling."
Heir Apparent (2019)
James Terry
"Terry is a literary artist of the best sort: keen to render the world whole and crosswise."