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Born in 1961, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - American writer.

Father worked as a neurologist, and mother taught writing to children. Her father, like the father of the heroine from her book, died of leukemia. He hid his illness from his family for 9 years. Bank received her BA from Hobart and William Smith College in 1982, then moved to New York, where she worked as an assistant editor for 2 years. In 1985, she graduated with a master's degree from Cornell University. After that Bank taught literature there for 3 years. After moving to New York in 1989, she got a job as a copywriter at McCann-Erickson, where she then worked for 9 years. She did not accept promotions, trying to focus on her writing. During this time, she took additional writing classes at Columbia University and wrote short stories that were published in small magazines. She published the first story, Lucky, in 1989 in the North American Review. In 1993 she wins the Nelson Ahlgren Award for the story "My Old Man". She wrote her first book for 12 years. In the five years before the novel was published, Banks had an accident and a head injury. As a result of the concussion, she lost about 10-15% of her vocabulary. The restoration took several years. However, even before the accident, she sometimes experienced bouts of aphasia during migraines.
However, even before the accident, she sometimes experienced bouts of aphasia during migraines.
However, even before the accident, she sometimes experienced bouts of aphasia during migraines.

Bank's career took off when Francis Ford Coppola asked her to write a story for his magazine Zoetrope in response to the 1996 publication of a guide on how to get a husband. Bank then sent the story and several others to her agent, who sent them to 10 publishers. 9 of them agreed to publish the collection. In February 1998, the manuscript of Girls' Guide to Fishing and Hunting was auctioned for $ 275,000 to Viking Press — a high price tag for a debut storybook. As of July 1999, the book was on the bestseller list in the USA, England and France. It lasted 16 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. Almost 6 years later, a new book "Wonderful Place" was published.

Bank was not married and has no children. She believes that one of the important conditions for successful writing is being alone and being able to think alone. The only exception to this rule, she calls her teaching at the Southampton Writers' Conference.

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