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Tomkievicz (1926–2012), a commercial artist.

In September 1964 in Manhattan she married Alexander W. The World Trade Center's destruction played a significant role in The Future of Love, her first (and only) novel. On September 11, 2001, in her apartment about one mile (1.6 kilometer) from the World Trade Center, Shirley Abbott Tomkievicz was talking on her phone to a friend when the first plane struck. įor 25 years she worked as a journalist and editor for the UC Berkeley Wellness Letter, published by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in collaboration with University Health Publishing in New York City. In addition to the people and history of Arkansas, she wrote about food, historic properties, and museums. Ībbott wrote articles for Smithsonian, Lear’s, Gourmet, Harper’s, American Heritage, Southern Living, McCall’s, Glamour, and Boston Review, as well as for newspapers. In 1959 Abbott was hired in New York City by Horizon: A Magazine of the Arts, where she worked for over 15 years and was for several years the magazine's editor-in-chief. She decided she did want to teach French and left graduate school. She was for the academic year 1957–1958 a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Grenoble and for the academic year 1958–1959 a scholarship graduate student in the French department of Columbia University.

For a brief time from 1956 to 1957 she worked in New York City as an editorial assistant for Henry Holt and Company. In 1956 she, as one of the winners of an essay contest, was one of twenty young women that Mademoiselle magazine's editors selected as paid guest editors in New York City for their College Issue.

Shirley Abbott graduated in 1952 from high school in Hot Springs, Arkansas as class valedictorian and in 1956 with a bachelor's degree ( cum laude) in English and French from Texas State College for Women (renamed in 1957 Texas Woman’s University). – April 8, 2019, Portland, Oregon, U.S.) was a magazine editor, writer, journalist, and historian. Shirley Jean Abbott Tomkievicz (November 16, 1934, Hot Springs, Arkansas, U.S.