name: Melissa Bank
birth_date: 1960-10-11 00:00:00
death_date: 2022-08-02 00:00:00
influences: Grace Paley, Vladimir Nabokov, John Cheever, Janet Malc, Billy Collins, Janet Malcolm
avg_rating: 3.36
ratings_count: 145815
about: Melissa Bank was an American author. She published two books, "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a volume of short stories, and "The Wonder Spot," a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_... Melissa Bank was an American author. She published two books, "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing," a volume of short stories, and "The Wonder Spot," a novel, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_... ...more