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Michael Malone (author)

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Michael Christopher Malone (November 22, 1942 – August 19, 2022) was an American author and television writer. He was noted for his work on the ABC Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his novels Handling Sin (1983), Foolscap (1991), and the murder mystery First Lady (2002).

Early lifeEdit

Malone was born in Durham, North Carolina,<ref name=Grubb>Template:Cite news</ref> on November 22, 1942.<ref>Public Records Listings at Ancestry.com</ref><ref name="WP obit">Template:Cite news</ref> His father worked as a psychiatrist; his mother was a teacher who was deaf.<ref name="WP obit"/> His family relocated to Atlanta when he was six years old.<ref name=Grubb/><ref name=Johnson>Template:Cite news</ref> He lived with his mother after his parents divorced.<ref name="WP obit"/> He studied English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,<ref name=Grubb/> graduating in 1964. He then obtained a master's degree from that institution two years later.<ref name="WP obit"/> Although he commenced a Doctor of Philosophy in English at Harvard University, he dropped out before finishing his thesis.<ref name=Kirch>Template:Cite news</ref>

CareerEdit

Malone's first novel, Painting the Roses Red, was inspired in part by his new wife and released in 1975. He recounted that he had authored the book in order to put off writing his doctoral thesis.<ref name="WP obit"/> He ultimately published 14 novels during his career.<ref name=Grubb/><ref name=Kirch/> One of these, Handling Sin (1983), retold Don Quixote with the Southern United States as its setting. Another book, Foolscap (1991), was about a university professor tasked with authoring an old playwright's biography, while First Lady, published in 2001, recounted a serial killer preying on women in a fictitious North Carolina town and became a bestseller.<ref name="WP obit"/> Malone set many of his stories in Piedmont, including First Lady and the other Justin & Cuddy novels, in his region of North Carolina.<ref name=Grubb/>

Outside of writing books, Malone became best known for his 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.<ref name="Branco">Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref name="Branco2">Template:Cite magazine</ref> Entertainment Weekly wrote that OLTL was "airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime – too good to be called 'soap opera.'"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

One Life to Live was averaging 5 million viewers when Malone left in 1996.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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.<ref name="WP obit"/> 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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> To explain this, Marcie said she took the book to "Professor Malone" at Llanview University, who helped her re-write it.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 No. 16 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Hardback Fiction. It later rose to No. 11.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal lifeEdit

Malone was married to Maureen Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> for 47 years until his death. They met while he was studying at Harvard. Together, they had one child (Maggie). They resided in Hillsborough, North Carolina, from 2000, while maintaining a second home in Connecticut.<ref name=Grubb/><ref name="WP obit"/> Malone was a board member and a supporter of the Burwell School Historic Site.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Malone died on August 19, 2022, at his home in Clinton, Connecticut.<ref name=Grubb/> He was 79, and suffered from pancreatic cancer for over a decade prior to his death.<ref name="WP obit"/><ref name=Kirch/>

Writing creditsEdit

Another World<ref name="WP obit"/>

  • Head writer: April 1997 – December 1997 (hired by Charlotte Savitz)

One Life to Live<ref name="WP obit"/>

13 Bourbon Street

  • TV pilot (co-written with Josh Griffith & produced by Linda Gottlieb)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

PublicationsEdit

BooksEdit

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Short storiesEdit

  • "Red Clay" (can be found in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, published by Houghton Mifflin)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • "Blue Cadillac"<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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