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American novelist

Michelle Richmond is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She wrote The Year of Fog, which was a New York Times bestseller,The Marriage Pact, which was a Sunday Times bestseller, and six other books of fiction.

Richmond grew up in Mobile, Alabama, the second of three sisters. She obtained her BA from the University of Alabama She founded Fiction Attic Press and San Francisco Journal of Books and is also a publisher.

Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall Away Dress (2001), was published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Her third book, The Year of Fog (2007), originally called Ocean Beach, was published by Delacorte Press and was a New York Times best seller. Her fourth book, No One You Know (2008), was published by Delacorte Press. Her 2017 novel The Marriage Pact was a selection of the UK's Richard and Judy Book Club and was published in 30 languages Her 2014 story collection Hum received the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize. In 2021, Grove Atlantic published her novel The Wonder Test. 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. from 2010 to 2022.