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Melissa Nathan

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born
June 13, 1968 in Hertfordshire, The United Kingdom

died
April 07, 2006

gender
female


About this author

Melissa Jane Nathan (13 June 1968 – 7 April 2006) was a journalist and UK author of popular "chick lit" novels in the early 2000s.
When working on Persuading Annie (2001), Nathan was diagnosed with breast cancer. She refused to let the illness dominate her life, and - in public anyway - was unfailingly positive. She had no time for most journalism written by cancer sufferers: "self-indulgent dirges without a helpline in sight", as she described them; she tried to joke about cancer's unoriginality in her Jewish Chronicle column and then added:
That was what you call laughing in adversity. It's what makes people smile mistily at me, as if I'm fading in front of their very eyes while telling knock-knock jokes. What they don't know is that I have...more


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Average rating: 3.63 · 5,446 ratings · 375 reviews · 8 distinct works
The Nanny
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,985 ratings — published 2003 — 16 editions
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Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin...
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 1,463 ratings — 9 editions
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Persuading Annie
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 720 ratings — 12 editions
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The Waitress
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 698 ratings — published 2004 — 14 editions
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The Learning Curve
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 533 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Perseguida pelo Passado
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008
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Christopher Columbus (Great...
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Quotes by Melissa Nathan

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a large ego must be in want of a woman to cut him down to size”
― Melissa Nathan
tags: humor , melissa-nathan , pride-and-prejudice
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“A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.”
― Melissa Nathan, Persuading Annie
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“Hi," (cough), "my name is Jasmin Field. I'm a journalist. So don't piss me off. Ha ha. And um - well, I can't really act. Ha ha." No one laughed.”
― Melissa Nathan, Pride, Prejudice and Jasmin Field
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