1. Melissa Bank's father, Arnold, was a neurologist who died during his late fifties of leukemia, a condition he concealed for almost ten years; her mother, Joan, worked as a teacher.
17 Facts About Melissa Bank
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Melissa Bank then worked in publishing in New York City, and obtained a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Cornell University in 1987.
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Melissa Bank published short stories and nonfiction in such publications as the Chicago Tribune, Ploughshares, Zoetrope, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Seventeen, as well as being broadcast on National Public Radio and the BBC.
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Melissa Bank identified Janet Malcolm as her favorite non-fiction writer.
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Melissa Bank was conferred the Nelson Algren Literary Award in 1993 for her short story Mr Wilson and Dennis the Menace.
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Melissa Bank taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton.
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Melissa Bank began writing The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing shortly after graduating from Cornell.
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Melissa Bank was involved in a serious bicycle accident where she was struck by a car in 1994, approximately five years before the book was published.
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Melissa Bank landed on her head, and even though she was wearing a helmet, she suffered post-concussion syndrome for almost two years.
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Melissa Bank had to stop writing the book during this period.
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Melissa Bank published her second novel, The Wonder Spot, in 2005.
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Melissa Bank was writing a third book for Viking Press at the time of her death.
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Melissa Bank was in a domestic partnership with Todd Dimston in the 18 years prior to her death.
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Melissa Bank divided her time between New York City and East Hampton.
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Melissa Bank was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994, which she eventually recovered from.
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Melissa Bank died on August 2,2022, at her home in East Hampton.
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Melissa Bank was 61, and suffered from lung cancer prior to her death.