Joan Mellen joanmellen@aol.com 215-204-1802 Anderson 1147 http://www.joanmellen.net

Joan Mellen is the author of seventeen books, which range from fiction to non-fiction. These include true-crime (Privilege: The Enigma of Sasha Bruce); the novel (Natural Tendencies); biography (Kay Boyle: Author of Herself, Hellman and Hammett, Gabriel Garcia Marquez); sportswriting (Bob Knight: His Own Man), film criticism (A Film Guide to The Battle of Algiers, Marilyn Monroe, Women and their Sexuality in the New Film, Voices from the Japanese Cinema, The Waves at Genji's Door: Japan through its Cinema, Seven Samurai, In the Realm of the Senses, and editing The World of Luis Buñuel); and literary criticism (Magic Realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude). Most recently she has written a hybrid work, part history, part biography, part current events, A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison and the Death of John F. Kennedy. 

Her work has been widely anthologized from fiction in The Good Parts to sports writing in Cult Baseball Players and The Sporting News Best Sports Stories to literary criticism in Screen Flights, Screen Fantasies. Her writing has appeared in many newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, the Baltimore Sun, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the St. Petersburg Times, Washingtonian, Antioch Review, Triquarterly, The Nation, Ms., Cosmopolitan, Film Quarterly, Cineaste, the Museum of Modern Art Film Department, and other places.

Professor Mellen teaches workshops in fiction writing, as well as graduate seminars in the history and poetics of the novel. Recent seminars have included "20th Century World Fiction: 1945-Present," "The Novel In Its History," and "Approaches to Literature: Poetics of the Novel."