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Bill Meissner

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  • Bibliography:
    7 Books
  • First Book:
    Hitting into the Wind (February 1994)
  • Last Book:
    The Wonders of the Little World (February 2024)
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Books in Order: 7 titles

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  • The Wonders of the Little World

    “A storyteller with remarkable gifts.” —Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.                            &#...

  • Summer of Rain, Summer of Fire

    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 ...

  • CIRCLING TOWARD HOME

    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...

  • Light at the Edge of the Field

         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...

  • Spirits in the Grass

    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, "Bill Meiss...

  • The Road to Cosmos: The Faces of an American Town

    "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...

  • Hitting into the Wind

    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....



Award-Winning Books by Bill Meissner

Spirits in the Grass
2008 Midwest Book Award (MIPA) -- General Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Bill Meissner has published 7 books.

Bill Meissner does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Wonders of the Little World, was published in February 2024.

The first book by Bill Meissner, Hitting into the Wind, was published in February 1994.

No. Bill Meissner does not write books in series.
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