Bill Meissner

• Feb-1994
• / General Fiction
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A collection of stories about baseball, Hitting Into the Wind contains the tale of a minor league player who fears that he will never make it, an umpire experiencing marital problems, and a man who collects old baseballs....

• Nov-2006
• / General Fiction
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"Meissner has the storyteller's gift for creating living characters, living speech, living emotions, living drama. He knows his small towns, but beyond that, he knows the workings of the human heart." ―Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carr...

• Sep-2008
• / General Fiction
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When Bill Meissner’s collection of short stories Hitting into the Wind was published in 1994, it was called “a quiet masterpiece of baseball writing” by the Greensboro, North Carolina, News and Record. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer said, “Bi...

• Oct-2021
• / General Fiction
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     Light at the Edge of the Field keeps readers wanting more as a pitcher’s girlfriend confronts her lover, not about his obsession with baseball but about their relationship and future together.  After watc...

• Jan-2022
• / General Fiction
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A collection of 100 artistic photographs accompanied by prose meditations about the game of baseball. a collection of 100 unique photographs of small-town or amateur baseball fields accompanied by short prose. The themes range from the joys and strug...

• Nov-2022
• / Thriller
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With its roots in a true but little-known incident involving the aerial bombing of a Midwest powder production plant in 1969, Summer of Rain, Summer of Fire is a family conflict that illuminates the struggle between conservative and liberal, between ...

• Feb-2024
• / General Fiction
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“A storyteller with remarkable gifts.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.                            &#...