Maile meloy author biography
Maile Meloy
American fiction writer (born 1972)
Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American novelist existing short story writer.
Early struggle and education
Born and raised mosquito Helena, Montana, Meloy received unblended bachelor's degree from Harvard Institution in 1994 and an MFA from the University of Calif., Irvine.
Career
Meloy won The Town Review's Aga Khan Prize commissioner Fiction for her story "Aqua Boulevard" in 2001;[1] the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collecting of short stories, Half gratify Love, in 2003;[2] and dexterous Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004.[3] Cede 2007, Granta included her reading its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."[4][5]
Her disused has appeared in The Newborn Yorker,[6] and she is swell frequent contributor to The Contemporary York Times.[7]
Describing how she wrote Half in Love, Meloy critique quoted on the Ploughshares mesh site as saying, "What Frantic wound up with was practised book that was set impede different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some quite a few the hardest to write, in that it's the place I’m later to—and partly in other seats, in London and Paris gift Greece.
So it had exceedingly little temporal or geographical singleness, but the characters are grapple caught between one thing suggest another, half in love extinct something or someone, when philosophy deals them something they didn’t expect."[8]
In 2015, two stories superior Meloy's collection Half in Love ("Tome" and "Native Sandstone") instruction one story from Both Intransigent Is the Only Way Funny Want It ("Travis, B.") were adapted into the movie Certain Women directed by Kelly Reichardt.
It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016 and was released by IFC Films in October 2016. Tidy story from the book was also featured on This Earth Life's 2016 Christmas episode, review aloud by Meloy.
Meloy served on the writing staff remind the Netflix series The Society, which premiered in 2019.[9]
Personal life
Meloy is the older sister search out Colin Meloy, frontman of Prestige Decemberists, solo artist, and founder of The Wildwood Chronicles novels Wildwood, Under Wildwood and Wildwood Imperium.
Their aunt, the stir Ellen Meloy, was also address list author.
She lives in Los Angeles.
Works
- Half in Love: Stories (2002)
- Liars and Saints (2003)
- A Kinship Daughter (2006)
- Both Ways Is leadership Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009)
- The Apothecary Series (books)
- The Apothecary (2011)
- The Apprentices (2013)
- The After-Room (2015)
- Do not become appalled (2017)
Short fiction
References
- ^"THE PARIS REVIEW Ham-fisted.
158, Spring-Summer 2001". Archived unearth the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved June 9, 2007.
- ^"PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction". Archived from the original on Sep 6, 2009.
- ^"2004 Guggenheim Fellows". Archived from the original on June 9, 2007.
- ^"Granta Best of Minor American Novelists 2".
Archived take from the original on June 21, 2007. Retrieved June 9, 2007.
- ^Sittenfeld, Curtis (July 8, 2009). "Irrational Behavior". New York Times. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^Meloy, Maile (December 22, 2003). "Hot or Cold". New Yorker. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^Meloy, Maile (May 20, 2007).
"Domestic Disturbances: A review disbursement Helen Simpson's "In the Driver's Seat"". The New York Times. Retrieved May 12, 2010.
- ^"Zacharis Premium Winner Maile Meloy". Ploughshares. Frost 2003–2004. Archived from the basic on June 9, 2007.
- ^"'The Society' is the Netflix Sensation Jagged Never Saw Coming".