Maile Meloy
1972
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. During her career as an author, which started in the year 2002, Meloy has written novels based on only the fiction genre. Recently, she has also tried to write short fiction novels. Meloy was born on January 01, 1972 in Helena, Montana, and never moved out till her high school years. She went on to join the Harvard College and obtained her bachelor’s degree in the year 1994. Later, Meloy completed her MFA from the California University, Irvine. As a result of the success of her novels, she has won many prestigious awards in her writing career. In the year 2001, author Meloy won the Aga Khan Price in the category of the best fiction by The Paris Review. She won this award for one of her stories titled ‘Aqua Boulevard’. This was followed by the Malamud/PEN Award in the year 2003 for her story collection, Half in Love. The most notable award won by author Meloy was in the year 2004 when she won the Guggenheim Fellowship. Eventually, she went on to be included on the list of 21 ‘Best Young American Authors’ by the Granta literary magazine.