Michael Malone is an American author and television writer, born in
Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC
Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his novels Handling Sin
(1983), Foolscap (1991), and murder mystery First Lady (2001).Malone
is well 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. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa
late 19911994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit
daytimetoo good to be called 'soap opera.'"Malone is well 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. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa late 19911994)
was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytimetoo good
to be called 'soap opera.'"One Life to Live was averaging 5 million
viewers when Malone left in 1996. 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. 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. To explain this, Marcie said she took
the book to "Professor Malone" at Llanview University, who helped her
re-write it. 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 #16 on The New York Times Best
Seller list for Hardback Fiction. It later rose to #11.Malone
currently lives in Hillsborough, N.C. with his wife, Maureen
Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University. He is a former
board member and a supporter of the Burwell School Historic Site.
Malone sets many of his stories in Piedmont, including First Lady and
the other Justin & Cuddy novels, in his region of North Carolina.
Durham, North Carolina. He is best known for his work on the ABC
Daytime drama One Life to Live, as well as for his novels Handling Sin
(1983), Foolscap (1991), and murder mystery First Lady (2001).Malone
is well 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. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa
late 19911994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit
daytimetoo good to be called 'soap opera.'"Malone is well 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. Entertainment Weekly wrote: "OLTL (circa late 19911994)
was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytimetoo good
to be called 'soap opera.'"One Life to Live was averaging 5 million
viewers when Malone left in 1996. 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. 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. To explain this, Marcie said she took
the book to "Professor Malone" at Llanview University, who helped her
re-write it. 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 #16 on The New York Times Best
Seller list for Hardback Fiction. It later rose to #11.Malone
currently lives in Hillsborough, N.C. with his wife, Maureen
Quilligan, a professor of English at Duke University. He is a former
board member and a supporter of the Burwell School Historic Site.
Malone sets many of his stories in Piedmont, including First Lady and
the other Justin & Cuddy novels, in his region of North Carolina.
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