Melissa Bank

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Melissa Bank is an American author. She has published one collection of short stories, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing and one novel The Wonder Spot. She was the winner of the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction.

The Girls' Guide to Hunting And Fishing was a bestseller in both the United States and the United Kingdom, garnering mostly positive reviews.[1] Melissa Bank along with English author, Helen Fielding, are credited with giving rise to the Chick Lit genre. Once Chick Lit moved away from being intelligent, humorous women's fiction to less well-written romantic comedy, many of the original authors distanced themselves from the movement.

A movie adaptation was filmed starring Sarah Michelle Gellar.