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Melissa Pritchard is the author of twelve books, including the novels Flight of the Wild Swan and Palmerino, the short story collection The Odditorium, and the essay collection A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write. Among other honors, she has received the Flannery O'Connor Award, Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and Carl Sandburg Literary Award as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Carson McCullers Center. Emeritus Professor of English and Women's Studies at Arizona State University, she is the fiction editor for Image journal and lives in Columbus, Georgia.
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I have been interested in hospitals, medicine, and nursing for as long as I can remember. Being a candy striper volunteer at Stanford Hospital in high school is one of my happiest adolescent memories. I love the atmosphere of "angels among us," of people healing other people, observing the countless selfless acts of kindness that go on in hospitals. I once wanted to be a doctor but realized I didn't have the interest or aptitude in science I would need to be a pre-med student, so I gravitated, over time, toward the arts, specifically writing and acting. Later, I would recognize parallels between doctors and writers—both are diagnosticians, both study human behavior and the complex interactions of mind/emotion/body/spirit.
As I got older and traveled abroad, I would always visit medical museums if there were any nearby. The history of medicine in relationship to war has always interested me since some of the greatest medical discoveries have come from learning to treat war injuries, wounds often inflicted by the newest weapons of the time.
Not until my forties was I finally able to visit England. From the moment I arrived, it felt like returning to a place I had known long and well and still deeply loved. Not so much modern-...
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