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Melanie Sumner (born December 30, 1963 Middletown, Ohio) is an American novelist. She grew up in Rome, Georgia as a child and graduated from University of North Carolina and Boston University. Currently, she is an assistant professor of English at Kennesaw State University.〔http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Georgia-Literary-Map/Georgia-Author-Detail.php?record_id=149〕 She was acclaimed as one of "America's Best Young Novelists" in 1995.〔http://www.romegeorgia.org/WhatToDo/GeorgiaLiteraryFestival/tabid/200/Default.aspx〕 ==Biography== She moved to Rome, Georgia at the age of seven and graduated from Darlington School in 1982. She received a BA in religious studies at the University of North Carolina in 1986 and an MFA in creative writing at Boston University a year later. She has taught at various schools, including Cape Fear Community College (1990–1993), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995–1996), University of New Mexico (1998–2001), and Shorter College (2002–2008). Currently, she is an associate professor of English at Kennesaw State University.〔http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Georgia-Literary-Map/Georgia-Author-Detail.php?record_id=149〕 Other than her novels, her fiction and nonfiction works have appeared in many journals, anthologies and magazines, including ''Story'', ''Boulevard'', ''The New Yorker'', ''New Stories from the South'', ''Voices of the Xiled'', ''Atlanta Magazine'', ''Five Points'', ''Ladies Home Journal'', and ''Kennesaw Review''.〔Sumner, Melanie (1995), Polite Society, Houghton Mifflin Company.〕〔http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Georgia-Literary-Map/Georgia-Author-Detail.php?record_id=149〕 She has lived in different places throughout her life. As a Peace Corps volunteer, she taught English in Senegal, West Africa, from 1988 to 1990. She also lived in New Mexico, Alaska, and Provincetown.〔http://www.georgiacenterforthebook.org/Georgia-Literary-Map/Georgia-Author-Detail.php?record_id=149〕 Shortly before the publication of The School of Beauty and Charm, she moved back to Rome, Georgia due to an illness in her family.〔http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2001/aug/southern/010830.southern.sumner.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Melanie Sumner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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