Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy (* February 15, 1972 in Helena, Montana, USA) is an American writer of short stories and novels.

Life

Meloy grew up in Helena, Montana; her younger brother Colin Meloy is now the lead singer of the band The Decemberists. During her studies at Harvard Meloy occupied by Richard Ford a course in creative writing. Ford encouraged her to continue her studies with Geoffrey Wolff at the University of California at Irvine, where they eventually a Master of Fine Arts acquired. During her studies in Irvine Meloy also worked in Los Angeles as an assistant in the animation department of Disney.

Through their studies Meloy received contact with the major literary agent Amanda Urban, over which a contract was concluded with the publisher Scribner. So Meloys first collection of short stories, was published in 2002 Half in Love, for which she has already received the PEN / Malamud Award, the PEN / Faulkner Foundation 2003. A year later, her debut novel, Liars and Saints, which became a bestseller and was included in the shortlist for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, A Family Daughter, was published in 2006. A central part of its action is the ( fictional ) work of Liars and Saints, which is thus a kind of " book within a book " is. Following his release Meloy received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 2009 put Meloy again a collection of short stories before, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, which was named by both The New York Times Book Review as well as the Los Angeles Times one of the ten best books of the year. Meloys latest novel, The Apothecary (2011), is aimed primarily at young readers.

Works

Novels

• Liars and Saints. ( Liars and Saints, 2003), translated by Ursula -Maria Moessner. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-0369-5586-5.
• Daughter of a family (A Family Daughter, 2006), translated by Ursula -Maria Moessner. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-0369-5573-5.
• The Apothecary ( 2011). translated by Petra Knese: Elixirium: The dangerous legacy of the pharmacist. Coppenrath, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-649-61154-7.

Collections of short stories

• The house at the end of the world: Stories. (Half in Love: Stories, 2002), translated by Anke Knefel, Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-442-45563-4.
• Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories ( 2009)