Abigail Jones's first book is the New York Times and Boston Globe bestseller Restless Virgins: Love, Sex, and Survival at a New England Prep School (William Morrow, 2007; coauthored). Her work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and USA Today, and on the Huffington Post and Misstropolis.com. She worked at the Atlantic as a staff editor, has a Masters in creative writing, with Distinction, from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and graduated from Dartmouth College, cum laude, in 2003. Though she looks for any excuse to travel abroad, she lives in New York City, where she's working on her second book.

Blog Entries by Abigail Jones

HIV Scare at St. Louis High School

4 Comments | Posted October 24, 2008 | 03:44 PM (EST)


The news is staggering: As many as 50 teenagers at Normandy High School in St. Louis, Missouri, may have been exposed to HIV. The school, which has a student body of 1,300, set up a testing center in the gym for its students; after consulting with a representative from the...

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The Hot Mom: The New "New Woman"

Posted July 9, 2008 | 05:08 PM (EST)


Move over, Lindsay, Miley, and all you other Hollywood princesses whose faces, bodies, and personal lives have been dominating our TV screens and magazine covers. Mom has arrived. She looks good, she has something to say, and she doesn't plan on going anywhere.

Today, many women want to be...

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Despite Feminism, Women Remain a Form of Currency

Posted March 12, 2008 | 05:05 PM (EST)


Now Eliot Spitzer -- a married man, a family guy, the Governor of New York -- PAID over $4,000 for Kristin, a petite brunette prostitute, SECRETLY met her at the Mayflower Hotel, LIED about his name, presumably had SEX (thus CHEATING on his wife), and then tried to HIDE it?...

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