The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing: 25th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Melissa Bank

Melissa Bank (1960-2022) was the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and The Wonder Spot , which have been translated into thirty languages. Her short stories and nonfiction were published in the Chicago Tribune , The Guardian , Ploughshares , Cosmopolitan , Glamour , O, The Oprah Magazine , and elsewhere, as well as broadcast by NPR and the BBC. She won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and held an MFA from Cornell University. A longtime resident of New York City and East Hampton, New York, she taught in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton and wrote until her passing in 2022.