Melissa Pritchard
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Melissa Pritchard is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist. Life Melissa Brown was born on December 12, 1948 in San Mateo, California. She grew up in San Mateo, Burlingame and Menlo Park and attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in Atherton, California. Her parents are Clarence John Brown, Jr., and Helen Lorraine Reilly Brown; she has one sibling, Penny Lee Byrd. She graduated in 1970 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.A. in Comparative Religions and in 1995, received an M.F.A. from Vermont College. Her first marriage of five years was to Daniel Hachez, musician and luthier, her second of eleven years to Mark Pritchard, father of her two daughters, Noelle Katarina Pritchard and Caitlin Skye Pritchard . She began to write fiction in Evanston, Illinois, and her first book, Spirit Seizures, published by the University of Georgia Press in 1987, received the Flannery O’Connor Award and the Carl Sandburg Award. Stories from that collection received an O. Henry Prize Stories Award the James D. Phelan Award and an honorary citation from the PEN/Nelson Algren Award. She raised her daughters in Evanston, Illinois, Taos, New Mexico and Tempe, Arizona, where she currently teaches at Arizona State University.
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- American Gothic Tales (1996) (6)
- Speeding, the Chief Constable and Trust in North Wales Police (2009) (4)
- The Baylor University and Waco Independent School District: A Twenty-Five Year Partnership That Began with a Plan in a Van. (2019) (2)
- Captain Brown and the Royal Victoria Military Hospital (2012) (1)
- Collaboration! Preventing Nursing Research From Slipping Through the Cracks (2011) (0)
- Mucolipidosis type II growth trajectories and requirement for enteral tube feeding: A single centre review (2022) (0)
- The Carnation Milk Palace (2015) (0)
- Hotel Majestic (2016) (0)
- Spirit Seizures: Stories (1989) (0)
- The Nine-Gated City (2016) (0)
- Effect of Screen Mesh on Image Resolution in Silk Screened Glaze Decoration (2008) (0)
- Creating Robust STEM Research Ecosystems in Schools: Joining the Dots for Young Researchers (2017) (0)
- WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT’S BEEN: 1990 Feb. 25-March 3 (1997) (0)
- Decomposing Articles of Faith (2010) (0)
- 23andWe. How can doctors decode direct-to-consumer genetic testing? (2015) (0)
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