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Melissa Harrison (born 1975) is an English novelist, short story and nature writer. [1] [2]

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Biography

Harrison was born in Effingham Junction, Surrey in 1975. [2] She attended a comprehensive school before studying English Literature at Oxford University, graduating in 1996. [1] [2] [3] After graduating, she worked as a freelance magazine subeditor, while contributing a regular "Nature Notes" column in The Times , [4] columns for The Guardian and contributions to radio and television. [5]

Her first novel, Clay, was published by Bloomsbury in January 2013, followed by At Hawthorn Time in 2015. [6] Her non-fiction books include Rain: Four Walks in English Weather (2016). [7] A third novel, All Among the Barley, was published in August 2018. [8] Her short story The Black Dog was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2017 [9] and she has contributed episodes to the channel's Tweet of the Day programme. [10] She has also made appearances on the BBC Two series Springwatch . [11] During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, she began a nature diary podcast called The Stubborn Light of Things which formed the basis of a new memoir published in November 2020 that outlined her move from urban London to rural Suffolk. [12] Her first children's novel, By Ash, Oak and Thorn was published by Chicken House Books in May 2021. [13]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Melissa Harrison". The Bookseller. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  3. 1 2 House, Christian (20 January 2013). "Melissa Harrison: A walk on the wild side" . The Independent . Archived from the original on 12 May 2022.
  4. ↑ Kappala-Ramsamy, Gemma (23 January 2013). "Debut author: Melissa Harrison". The Guardian .
  5. ↑ "Columns by Melissa Harrison". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  6. ↑ House, Christian (8 May 2015). "At Hawthorn Time by Melissa Harrison". The Daily Telegraph .(subscription required)
  7. ↑ "Author: Melissa Harrison". Bloomsbury . Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Melissa Harrison". The Nest Collective. Archived from the original on 7 September 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Black Dog". BBC Radio 4 . 10 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Tweet of the Day - Melissa Harrison on the Tawny Owl". BBC Radio 4. 1 May 2019.
  11. ↑ "Springwatch". BBC Programmes. 15 June 2016.
  12. ↑ "The Stubborn Light of Things". Melissa Harrison website. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  13. ↑ Sanders, Patrick. "By Ash, Oak and Thorn". The School Reading List. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  14. ↑ "Melissa Harrison". European Union Prize for Literature. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
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