Joanne Meschery (born 1941 in

Gorman, Texas Gorman is a city in Eastland County, Texas, United States. Its population was 1,083 at the 2010 census, down from 1,236 at the 2000 census. Geography Gorman is located in southeastern Eastland County at (32.211956, –98.671281). Texas State Hig ...

) is an American fiction writer. She is the author of three novels: ''In a High Place'' (1981), ''A Gentleman's Guide to the Frontier'' (1990), which was nominated for a Pen/Faulkner Award, and ''Home and Away'' (Simon & Schuster, 1994), recently reprinted by the

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as part of their California Writers Series. Joanne Meschery was married to former NBA player

Tom Meschery Thomas Nicholas Meschery ( ; born Tomislav Nikolayevich Meshcheryakov (russian: Томислав Николаевич Мещеряков); October 26, 1938)

. Meschery, though born in Texas, spent her early childhood years in Boston, Massachusetts, and later moved with her family to

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. She attended high school in

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. Her work has been awarded two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts along with numerous other prizes. She studied at the

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Workshop and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at

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. She taught

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at the

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and now teaches English and creative writing at

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Awards and honors

Joanne Meschery was inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame in 1999.

External links

Nevada Writers Hall of Fame
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