Maile Meloy
Biography
Maile Meloy
Maile Meloy is the author of the novels LIARS AND SAINTS and A FAMILY DAUGHTER and the story collections HALF IN LOVE and BOTH WAYS IS THE ONLY WAY I WANT IT, which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review and one of the best books of the year by the Los Angeles Times and Amazon.com. She has also written a trilogy for young readers, beginning with THE APOTHECARY, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the 2012 E.B. White Award.
Meloy’s short stories have been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta and BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2015, and she has received The Paris Review’s Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two California Book Awards, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2007, she was chosen as one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, Sunset and O.
Her new novel for adults is DO NOT BECOME ALARMED.
Maile Meloy
