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| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Alabama (BA) University of Miami (MFA) |
| Notable awards | AWP Award (2000) |
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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]
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]
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.
Richmond obtained the following awards for her writing:
Richmond resides in Northern California [4] with her husband and son. [27]
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