Maile Meloy

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter , the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review ), and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was...See more

Maile Meloy is the author of the novels Liars and Saints and A Family Daughter , the short-story collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It (named one of the 10 Best Books of 2009 by The New York Times Book Review ), and a bestselling middle-grade trilogy. Her fiction has won the Paris Review 's Aga Khan Prize for Fiction, the PEN/Malamud Award, and the Rosenthal Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Meloy was shortlisted for the UK's Orange Prize and chosen as one of Granta 's Best Young American Novelists. See less