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by: Michael Rhodes - Thu, 4 Aug 2022 17:59 UTC

Melissa Bank, the author best known for writing The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, has died. She was 61.

https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/melissa-bank-dead-girls-guide-to-fishing-the-wonder-spot-author.html

According to a statement from Viking Penguin, she died August 2, 2022, in East Hampton, New York, after a struggle with lung cancer. Bank’s breakout book, The Girls’ Guide to Hunting and Fishing, debuted in 1999 and was a New York Times best seller for 16 weeks. It is a series of short stories linked by a common main character named Jane Rosenthal. It is generally understood that the book is at least somewhat autobiographical. “Jane and Banks [sic] were both born in Philadelphia and live in New York, they share a neurologist father who died of leukaemia in his late 50s, a background in publishing, an older lover with a history of drunkenness and diabetes,” wrote Simon Hattenstone in a ’99 profile of Bank in the Guardian. At the time of its release, the book was often compared to Bridget Jones’s Diary, though “Bank’s is a far more subtle piece of work, which achieves even more than it aims to,” said The New Yorker in its review.

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