Michelle Richmond
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Michelle Richmond is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She wrote The Year of Fog, which was a New York Times bestseller,[1] The Marriage Pact, which was a Sunday Times bestseller,[2] and six other books of fiction.[3]
Biography
Richmond grew up in Mobile, Alabama,[4][5][6] the second of three sisters.[7] She obtained her BA from the University of Alabama[7] and Master of Fine Arts from the University of Miami, where she was a James Michener Fellow. She has taught at the University of San Francisco, the California College of the Arts, Saint Mary's College of California[5] in Moraga, at Bowling Green State University and Notre Dame de Namur University.[8] She founded Fiction Attic Press[9] and San Francisco Journal of Books and is also a publisher.[10]
Writing career
Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001),[11] was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her third book, The Year of Fog (2007), originally called Ocean Beach,[5] was published by Delacorte Press[12] and was a New York Times best seller.[5][13] Her fourth book, No One You Know (2008),[14] was published by Delacorte Press.[15] Her 2017 novel The Marriage Pact was a selection of the UK's Richard and Judy Book Club and was published in 30 languages[16] Her 2014 story collection Hum received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize.[17] In 2021, Grove Atlantic published her novel The Wonder Test.[18]
Richmond's book, The Year of Fog, won her acclaim including being selected as one of the best books of 2007 by Library Journal, chosen by Kirkus Reviews as a top pick for Reading Groups, was nominated for the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle award, was listed by the San Francisco Chronicle as a notable book and was a New York Times bestseller and a best selling paperback book for Bantam publishers.[1]
She served on the board of the Authors Guild[19] from 2010 to 2022.
Awards and recognition
Richmond obtained the following awards for her writing:
- 2022 Hall Waters Prize for Excellence in Southern Writing[20]
- 2018 Truman Capote Prize[21]
- 2012 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize for The Hero of Queens Boulevard and Other Stories from FC2.[22]
- 2011 selection of Silicon Valley Reads for The Year of Fog[23]
- Hillsdale Award for Fiction (2009).[24][25]
- Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction for The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2000)[26]
- Mississippi Review Fiction Prize (2006)[8]
Personal life
Richmond resides in Northern California[4] with her husband and son.[27]
Works
- The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress (2001)
- Dream of the Blue Room (2003)
- The Year of Fog (2007)
- No One You Know (2008)
- Hum (2010)
- Golden State (2014)
- The Marriage Pact (2017)
- The Wonder Test (2021)
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