Michael Malone

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Michael Malone is an American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina.

He is best known for his best-selling works of fiction, which include Handling Sin (1983) and Foolscap (1991), as well as the murder mystery First Lady (2001). He is proud of his Piedmont heritage and sets many of his stories, including First Lady and the other Justin & Cuddy novels, in that region of North Carolina.

Malone is also well-known for his successful stint writing the soap opera One Life To Live. He was the serial's Head Writer from 1991 to 1996 and garnered much critical acclaim for his storylines, especially the gang rape of Marty Saybrooke and one involving the tight bond between an ostracized homosexual teenager and a preacher. OLTL was averaging about 5 million viewers when Malone left in 1996. His next soap writing job was with Another World in 1997. He returned to write One Life to Live from 2003 to 2004.

While writing One Life To Live, he wrote a novel called The Killing Club, which was tied into the show. For months, viewers watched character Marcie Walsh (Kathy Brier) write the book. The book was published in February 2005 with the authors listed as Marcie Walsh and Michael Malone. To explain this, Marcie said she took the book to "Professor Malone" at Llanview University, who helped her re-write it. After Malone's departure from the show, Dena Higley continued this storyline, as a copycat killer murdered characters on the show exactly as had occurred in the book.

In its first week of publication The Killing Club went to #16 on the New York Times Best Seller list for Hardback Fiction. It later rose to #11.

Michael currently lives in Hillsborough, N.C. with his wife, Maureen Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University. He is a former board member and a supporter of the Burwell School Historic Site. For example, it is a holiday tradition for him to perform A Christmas Carol each December as a fundraiser for the school.

1 Works
- 1.1 Short Stories
2 Positions held
3 Awards and nominations
4 External links

[edit] Works

(1976) The Delectable Mountains: Or, Entertaining Strangers. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-4022-0006-4.
(1980) Dingley Falls. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-4022-0007-2.
(1983) Handling Sin. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-57071-756-7.
(1989) Time's Witness. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-57071-754-0.
(1991) Foolscap: Or, the Stages of Love. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-57071-757-5.
(1993) Uncivil Seasons. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-57071-755-9.
(2001) First Lady. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-57071-971-3.
(2002) Red Clay, Blue Cadillac: Stories of Twelve Southern Women. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-57071-824-5.
(2003) The Last Noel. Sourcebooks Landmark, ISBN 1-4022-0147-8.
(2005) The Killing Club. Hyperion, ISBN 1-4013-0156-8. (co-credited with Marcie Walsh, based on a story by Josh Griffith)

[edit] Short Stories

"Red Clay" (can be found in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, published by Houghton Mifflin) (Recipient of the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Short Story)
"Blue Cadillac"
"Murdered for Love"
"Delacorte"