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Melissa Bank was an American author. She attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and had an MFA from Cornell University. Her works include The Girls' Guide to Hunting, Fishing, a volume of short stories: The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine, and The Wonder Spot.
Bank was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.
She died August 2, 2022, in East Hampton, New York, after a struggle with lung cancer.
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A. How is a writer's gender relevant to a work of modern fiction? We've
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women's cable channels, among other girl-centric media. What are your views
about this trend? Is there such a thing as a women's movie or book?
Q. Do you feel that The Girls' Guide is a feminist book? Why or
why not?
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