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Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy
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Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy is the author of the story collection Half in Love and the novel Liars and Saints, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize. Meloy's stories have been published in The New Yorker, and she has received The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Rosenthal Foundation Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in California.

Half in Love will be released on December 01, 2009 in eBook
Dec 01, 2009
Half in Love is now available in eBook
Dec 01, 2009
Liars and Saints will be released on November 01, 2007 in eBook
Nov 01, 2007
Liars and Saints is now available in eBook
Nov 01, 2007
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A Family Daughter will be released on February 20, 2007 in Trade Paperback
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A Family Daughter will be released on February 14, 2006 in eBook
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A Family Daughter is now available in eBook
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A Family Daughter will be released on February 14, 2006 in
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Feb 14, 2006
Liars and Saints will be released on June 29, 2004 in Trade Paperback
Jun 29, 2004
Liars and Saints is now available in Trade Paperback
Jun 29, 2004

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New Yorker, May 14, 2012
...Your story in this week’s issue, "The Proxy Marriage," hinges on a legal technicality. Where did you find out about double-proxy weddings? And did you immediately know this would be a good hook for a story? In 2008, my husband read a story about proxy...
Orange County Weekly, May 13, 2012
...New and Selected Poems) and Garrett Hongo (The River of Heaven) to novelists Richard Ford (Independence Day) and Maile Meloy, author of instant-classic short stories in Both Ways is the Only Way I Want It. More recent stars: Michael Chabon (The Amazing...
Missoulian, May 12, 2012
...Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the large meeting room. We have it: Staff reviews “The Apothecary” by Maile Meloy, with illustrations by Ian Schoenherr, call No. Y MELOY I had the pleasure of hearing a talk from this author at the recent Montana Library...
Sacramento Bee, May 6, 2012
...by T�a Obreht Young adult: "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys Read-aloud for children: "The Apothecary" by Maile Meloy and "Wildwood" by Colin Meloy Picture book: "I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen One more: The website www.bookmovement.com It...
Sacramento Bee, May 6, 2012
...by T�a Obreht Young adult: "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys Read-aloud for children: "The Apothecary" by Maile Meloy and "Wildwood" by Colin Meloy Picture book: "I Want My Hat Back" by Jon Klassen One more: The website www.bookmovement.com It...
The Progress, May 4, 2012
...favorable. The new selections include works by authors such as Maureen Johnson, James Paterson, Percy Jackson, Han Nolan, Maile Meloy and many more. For a complete listing of new titles visit the library, on Bloomfield Avenue, which is open from 9 a.m....
Caldwells Patch, May 3, 2012
...patrons. The new selections include works by authors such as Maureen Johnson, James Paterson, Percy Jackson, Han Nolan, Maile Meloy and many more. “The young adult section was definitely an area in need of updating,” Library Director Adele Puccio...
Globe and Mail, February 27, 2012
...Colin Meloy, left, who also performs in the band The Decemberists, and Maile Meloy The Meloy siblings, sister and brother, have, in their previous incarnations (before they took up writing for children), scaled the heights of artistic success and...
WNYC, February 27, 2012
...Short Story Prize.  This year's theme is “objects of desire.”  The judge is the author Maile Meloy and the deadline is March 2, 2012. ...
Globe and Mail, February 26, 2012
...Colin Meloy, left, who also performs in the band The Decemberists, and Maile Meloy The Meloy siblings, sister and brother, have, in their previous incarnations (before they took up writing for children), scaled the heights of artistic success and...
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, February 26, 2012
...Janet Evanovich, “Sleepwalker” by Karen Robards YOUNG ADULT “Girls Don’t Fly” by Kristen Chandler, “The Apothecary” by Maile Meloy, “A Tale of Twp Pretties” by Lisi Harrison, “Close to Famous” by Joan Bauer, “Inheritance” by...
Salon, February 23, 2012
...?Portlandia? in Wildwood, the debut novel by Colin Meloy, frontman of the Decemberists and brother of ?Apothecary? author Maile Meloy. (USA Today) Prue, the book?s bicycle-pedaling, steamed-milk-sipping, library-book-addicted adolescent female...
WNYC, February 19, 2012
...Short Story Prize.  This year's theme is “objects of desire.”  The judge is the author Maile Meloy and the deadline is March 2, 2012. ...
WNYC, February 12, 2012
...Short Story Prize.  This year's theme is “objects of desire.”  The judge is the author Maile Meloy and the deadline is March 2, 2012. ...