Michael Malone

Michael Malone is an American author and television writer, born in Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin (1983), Foolscap (1991), and murder mystery First Lady (2001).

Career

Malone is well known for his successful stint writing the soap opera One Life to Live. He was the serial's head writer after being hired by Linda Gottlieb from 1991 to 1996 and garnered critical acclaim for his storylines, which included a tale involving the tight bond between an ostracized homosexual teenager and a preacher, the creation of villain/rapist Todd Manning and the character's gang rape of Marty Saybrooke, as well as the subsequent rape trial.[1][2] Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa late 1991–1994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime—too good to be called 'soap opera.'"

One Life to Live was averaging 5 million viewers when Malone left in 1996. His next soap opera 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, Malone 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 bestseller list for Hardback Fiction. It later rose to #11.

Personal life

Malone currently lives in Hillsborough, N.C. with his wife, Maureen Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University.[3] He is a former board member and a supporter of the Burwell School Historic Site. Malone sets many of his stories in Piedmont, including First Lady and the other Justin & Cuddy novels, in his region of North Carolina.

Writing credits

Another World

One Life to Live

Un-titled ABC Drama

13 Bourbon Street

Bibliography

Short stories

(Recipient of the 1997 Edgar Award for Best Short Story)[6][7]

Awards and nominations

Emmy Acceptance Speech: "There are a lot of us up here, but there are hundreds more that should be—other writers, the cast and crew, the producers and directors of One Life To Live—without you what we do would just be typing. And the wonderful ladies across the street at ABC-Mickey and Pat and Maxine Levinson and Barbara.. and two very extraordinary women-Linda Gottlieb, who had the amazing courage to hire all of us and to turn us loose in Llanview-thank you.....also, Agnes Nixon, who created the world that we live in... If Charles Dickens is the father of daytime, she's his daughter and we're very proud to be among her children. Thank you."

References

  1. ↑ Branco, Nelson (September 29, 2008). "FF: Soap Malfunction Currently in Progress OLTL: Raping Marty softly with his kiss". TV Guide. Archived from the original on July 18, 2011. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Branco, Nelson (2008-10-01). "Shame and Prejudice: Mishandling sin on 'OLTL'". TV Guide.
  3. ↑ Michael Malone
  4. ↑ Bookballoon.com – Michael Malone
  5. ↑ "EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD BEST SHORT STORY". 20 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Michael Malone - Story in Literary Fiction".
  7. ↑ "Fiction Book Review: RED CLAY, BLUE CADILLAC: Twelve Southern Women by Michael Malone, Author. Sourcebooks Landmark $15 (352p)". ISBN 978-1-57071-824-3.
  8. ↑ "Michael Malone - Directory of Writers - Poets & Writers".
  9. ↑ Anglican.org
Preceded by
Craig Carlson		 Head Writer of One Life to Live
(with Josh Griffith: January 1992 – February 1995)
August 1991 – March 1996 		Succeeded by
Leah Laiman
Jean Passanante
Peggy Sloane
Preceded by
Josh Griffith		 Head Writer of One Life to Live
(with Josh Griffith: March 10, 2003 – March 22, 2004)
March 10, 2003 – November 24, 2004 		Succeeded by
Dena Higley
Preceded by
Tom King
Craig Carlson		 Head Writer of Another World
April – December 1997 		Succeeded by
Richard Culliton
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