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Melissa Pritchard


USA flag (b.1948)

Melissa Pritchard is a Flannery O'Connor, Janet Heidinger Kafka, and Carl Sandburg Award-winning author. She has also been an embedded journalist in Afghanistan, where she befriended Ashton Goodman, a young soldier she memorialized for O, The Oprah Magazine, and authored a biography of Virginia Galvin Piper that US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor called "a delight to read." Founder of the Ashton Goodman Grant and the Afghan Women's Writing Project, she teaches at Arizona State University.
 
 
New and upcoming books
Novels
   Selene of the Spirits (1989)
   Phoenix (1991)
   Late Bloomer (2004)
   Palmerino (2013)
   Flight of the Wild Swan (2024)
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Collections
   Spirit Seizures (1987)
   The American Story (1990)
   The Instinct For Bliss (1995)
   Open City (2000)
   Disappearing Ingenue (2002)
   The Odditorium (2012)
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Non fiction show
 
Melissa Pritchard recommends
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Strangers in Budapest (2017)
Jessica Keener
"In Strangers in Budapest, Jessica Keener's riveting novel of conscience and suspense, multiple strands of fate and guilt, cultural memory and private trauma overlap and tighten into an ethical knot of compelling, hypnotic design. An enthralling read!"

Anthologies containing stories by Melissa Pritchard
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Growing Up (2021)
Stories About Adolescence from the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
edited by
Ethan Laughman
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The Literary Ghost (1991)
Great Contemporary Ghost Stories
edited by
Larry Dark

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