Stacey Abrams Contains Multitudes Her obsessions with public policy and pop culture came together in the new Supreme Court thriller “While Justice Sleeps,” the first time she has used her own name on one of her novels. “One thing I am grateful to my parents for is that there was never a moment where they said, ‘Don’t do this,’” Stacey Abrams said. “What they wanted for us was to explore and try.”Credit...Diwang Valdez for The New York Times May 5, 2021Updated 1:42 p.m. ET Stacey Abrams published her first book — “Rules of Engagement,” a romance novel about a brilliant undercover agent and her smoking-hot colleague — while a student at Yale Law School. Eager to keep her worlds separate, she used the nom de plume Selena Montgomery, a homage to the “Bewitched” actress Elizabeth Montgomery.