Michelle Richmond

Michelle Richmond is an American novelist and essayist.

Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress^[1], won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her first novel, Dream of the Blue Room, was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2003. Her second novel, The Year of Fog, published by Delacorte in 2007, was a New York Times best seller ^[2] and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller ^[3]. Newmarket Films acquired the film rights to The Year of Fog^[4] .

Richmond was born in Demopolis, Alabama, grew up in Mobile, attended college at The University of Alabama and graduate school at the University of Miami, and eventually settled in San Francisco, where she founded the online literary journal Fiction Attic.

Richmond's short stories have appeared in Playboy, The Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, Literary Mama, and elsewhere. She received the 2006 Mississippi Review Prize for a short story entitled "The Great Amphibian." Her essays have been published in Salon.com, Oxford American, and The Kenyon Review, among others. Additionally, her essays about Iceland, Argentina, China, Slovenia, and other destinations have appeared in many magazines and anthologies.

1. ^ Galehouse, Maggie [1] "The New York Times," "Books in Brief" December 9, 2001
2. ^ [2] "The New York Times," "Paperback bestsellers: Fiction," May 18, 2008
3. ^ [3] "San Francisco Chronicle," "Bestsellers," March 9, 2008
4. ^ McNary, Dave [4] "Variety," "Fog Rolls into Newmarket," July 1, 2007]

External links

• The Year of Fog movie
• Interview by Mark Pritchard for SF Metblogs
• Profile in Family Circle
• Interview on The Happy Booker
• Podcast interview for Conversations on the Coast
• Michelle Richmond's home page
• Fiction Attic
• Michelle Richmond on Talk of the Nation

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