In one of her interviews on the Ploughshares website, author Meloy has described how she wrote the collection of stories, Half in Love.

Many of the stories written by author Meloy have featured in The New Yorker and she has also been a frequent contributor to the literary section of The New York Times. Eventually, she went on to be included on the list of 21 ‘Best Young American Authors’ by the Granta literary magazine. The most notable award won by author Meloy was in the year 2004 when she won the Guggenheim Fellowship. This was followed by the Malamud/PEN Award in the year 2003 for her story collection, Half in Love.

She won this award for one of her stories titled ‘Aqua Boulevard’. In the year 2001, author Meloy won the Aga Khan Price in the category of the best fiction by The Paris Review. As a result of the success of her novels, she has won many prestigious awards in her writing career. Later, Meloy completed her MFA from the California University, Irvine. She went on to join the Harvard College and obtained her bachelor’s degree in the year 1994. Meloy was born on Januin Helena, Montana, and never moved out till her high school years. Recently, she has also tried to write short fiction novels. During her career as an author, which started in the year 2002, Meloy has written novels based on only the fiction genre. Maile is represented by Amanda Urban at ICM (literary), and by Clifford Murray at Management 360 (TV and film).Maile Meloy is one of the well known fiction writers of America who has written and published a number of successful novels in her writing career. Her essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Slate, Sunset, and O, and she has written for The Society on Netflix, and for the new series Accused on Fox and Hulu.

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. Meloy’s short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, and Best American Short Stories, and on This American Life and Selected Shorts. She has also written a trilogy of novels for young readers, beginning with The Apothecary, which was a New York Times bestseller and won the E.B. Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints, A Family Daughter, and Do Not Become Alarmed, 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.

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