# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/melissa-bank
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:40:43.212Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/melissa-bank"
name: "Melissa Bank"
slug: "melissa-bank"
description: "Melissa Susan Bank was an American author. She published two books—The Wonder Spot, a volume of short stories, and The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing—and won the 1993 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction. She taught at Stony Brook University."
tagline: "American writer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2f/Melissa_Bank.png"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960-10-11"
deathDate: "2022-08-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.36
  momentum:             4.714003944773176
  historical:           9.226856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1746304/"
    handle:    "nm1746304"
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Melissa_Bank"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "ميليسا بانك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "ميليسا بانك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0_%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA"
    title: "Мелиса Банк"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bank"
    title: "Melissa Bank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "ملیسا بنک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bank"
    title: "Melissa Bank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bank"
    title: "Melissa Bank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Bank"
    title: "Melissa Bank"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%8D%D0%BD%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B0"
    title: "Бэнк, Мелисса"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6812633"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200622"
    title: "Melissa Bank"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump