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 1991â€"1994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to
hit daytimeâ€"too 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
1991â€"1994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit
daytimeâ€"too 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. Michael Malone Top Movies & Young Movies