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Maile Meloy (born January 1, 1972) is an American novelist and short story writer. Early life and education Born and raised in Helena, Montana, Meloy received a bachelor's degree from Harvard College in 1994 and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Career Meloy won The Paris Review's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story "Aqua Boulevard" in 2001; the PEN/Malamud Award for her first collection of short stories, Half in Love, in 2003; and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004. In 2007, Granta included her on its list of the 21 "Best Young American Novelists."Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she is a frequent contributor to The New York Times.Describing how she wrote Half in Love, Meloy is quoted on the Ploughshares web site as saying, "What I wound up with was a book that was set in different decades, partly in Montana—and those stories were some of the hardest to write, because it's the place I’m closest to—and partly in other places, in London and Paris and Greece. So it had very little temporal or geographical unity, but the characters are all caught between one thing and another, half in love with something or someone, when life deals them something they didn’t expect."In 2015, two stories from Meloy's collection Half in Love ("Tome" and "Native Sandstone") and one story from Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It ("Travis, B.") were adapted into the movie Certain Women directed by Kelly Reichardt. It premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2016 and was released by IFC Films in October 2016. A story from the book was also featured on This American Life's 2016 Christmas episode, read aloud by Meloy. Meloy served on the writing staff of the Netflix series The Society, which premiered in 2019. Personal life Meloy is the older sister of Colin Meloy, frontman of The Decemberists, solo artist, and author of The Wildwood Chronicles novels Wildwood, Under Wildwood and Wildwood Imperium. Their aunt, the late Ellen Meloy, was also an author. She lives in Los Angeles. Works Half in Love: Stories (2002) Liars and Saints (2003) A Family Daughter (2006) Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It: Stories (2009) The Apothecary Series (books) The Apothecary (2011) The Apprentices (2013) The After-Room (2015) Do not become alarmed (2017)Short fiction "Demeter". The New Yorker. Vol. 88, no. 36. November 19, 2012. "The Proxy Marriage". The New Yorker. May 21, 2012. "Travis, B." The New Yorker. Vol. 78, no. 4003. October 20, 2002.References External links Archival collections Guide to the Maile Meloy Collection MS.L.019. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.Other Interview Official Web site NYT review of "A Family Daughter" . Discover the Maile Meloy popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Maile Meloy books.

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  • A Family Daughter synopsis, comments

    A Family Daughter

    Maile Meloy

    From the awardwinning author of Half in Love and Liars and Saints, a riveting story of love, sex, secrets, guilt, and forgiveness. Maile Meloy's debut novel, Liars and Saints, cap...

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    The Apprentices

    Maile Meloy & Ian Schoenherr

    Two years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s defiant son who stole her heart. On the other side of the world, Benjamin and his fat...

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    Rutting Season

    Mandeliene Smith

    This sparkling collection of short stories explores the effects of loss, and the surprising ways people find to keep going, for “fans of Alice Munro and Marilynne Robinson” (Refine...

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    The Dearly Beloved

    Cara Wall

    “This gentle, gorgeously written book may be one of my favorites ever.” Jenna Bush Hager (A Today show “Read with Jenna” Book Club Selection!)This “moving portrait of love and frie...

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    Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It

    Maile Meloy

    One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2009 now adapted into the feature film Certain Women, starring Kristen Stewart awardwinning writer Maile Meloy's short stories explore co...

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    Liars and Saints

    Maile Meloy

    A richly textured novel tells a story of sex and longing, love and loss, and of the deceit that can lie at the heart of family relationships. “Each chapter…has the seductive aura o...