- Maile Meloy
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Maile Meloy Born January 1, 1972
Helena, MontanaNationality American Field Fiction Training University of California, Irvine Awards Guggenheim Fellowship (2004) Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American author of fiction. She was born in Helena, Montana, where she was also raised.
Meloy graduated from the University of California, Irvine with an M.F.A. in fiction, and holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College, class of 1994.
Meloy won The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story, "Aqua Boulevard," in 2001;[1] the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories, Half in Love, in 2003;[2] and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.[3] In 2007, Granta included her on its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."[4][5]
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[6] and she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.[7]
Describing how she wrote "Half in Love," Meloy is quoted on the Ploughshares Web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it’s the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."[8]
Meloy is the older sister of Colin Meloy, a solo artist and founding member of The Decemberists. She lives in Los Angeles.
Works
- Half in Love: Stories (2002)
- Liars and Saints (2003)
- A Family Daughter (2006)
- Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009)
- The Apothecary (2011)
External links
References
- ^ "THE PARIS REVIEW No. 158, Spring-Summer 2001". http://www.parisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/158.
- ^ "PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction". http://www.penfaulkner.org/penmalamud.htm.
- ^ "2004 Guggenheim Fellows". http://www.gf.org/04fellow.html.
- ^ "Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2". http://www.bestyoungnovelists.com/Maile-Meloy.
- ^ Sittenfeld, Curtis (July 8, 2009). "Irrational Behavior". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Sittenfeld-t.html?ref=mailemeloy. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ Meloy, Maile (December 22, 2003). "Hot or Cold". New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/12/22/031222fa_fact2. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ Meloy, Maile (2007-05-20). "Domestic Disturbances: A review of Helen Simpson's "In the Driver's Seat"". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/books/review/Meloy-t.html?ex=1336968000&en=c508cfb8308735d2&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^ "Zacharis Award Winner Maile Meloy". Ploughshares. Winter 2003-2004. http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=7797.[dead link]
Categories:- 1972 births
- Living people
- People from Helena, Montana
- Writers from Montana
- American writers
- American writers of Irish descent
- Harvard University alumni
- University of California, Irvine alumni
- People from Los Angeles, California
- Guggenheim Fellows
- American novelist, 1970s birth stubs
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