Michael Malone

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 best-selling works of fiction Handling Sin (1983), Foolscap (1991), and murder mystery First Lady (2001).

Career

Malone is well known for his successful 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 1991–1994) was airing some of the most literate drama ever to hit daytime—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 bestseller list for Hardback Fiction. It later rose to #11.

Michael Malone (basketball)

Michael Malone (born 1971) is an American professional basketball coach who is currently the head coach of the Denver Nuggets in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Early life and education

Born in the Astoria neighborhood of the New York City borough Queens, Michael Malone is the son of Brendan Malone, a former NBA head coach. He graduated from Worcester Academy in 1990. He then graduated from Loyola University Maryland in 1994 with a degree in history and played four years on the Loyola Greyhounds men's basketball team. He appeared in 107 games and started 39 of them as a point guard. During his four seasons with the Greyhounds, Malone totaled 370 points, 279 assists and 79 steals in 18.5 minutes per game.

Coaching career

After graduating from Loyola, Malone began his coaching career in 1994 at Oakland University as an assistant coach for Golden Grizzlies men's basketball under coach Greg Kampe. Malone was about to start training to join the Michigan State Police before getting a job offer from Providence College coach Pete Gillen. Malone was an assistant coach for Providence Friars men's basketball from 1995 to 1998. In the 1998–99 season, Malone was director of men's basketball administration at the University of Virginia.

Michael Malone (disambiguation)

Michael Malone is an American author and television writer.

Michael, Mick or Mike Malone may also refer to:

Sports

Michael Malone (basketball) (born 1971), American basketball coach

Mick Malone (cricketer) (born 1950), former Australian cricketer

Mick Malone (hurler) (born 1950), Irish retired hurler

Others

Michael Malone, the managing director and founder of Australian ISP iiNet

Michael P. Malone (1940–1999), American historian

Michael S. Malone (born 1954), American author and former Forbes editor

Fictional characters

Michael Malone, a parody of Michael Moore, in the film An American Carol (2008)

Michael Malone, the druid and godfather of Ruth Galloway's daughter who goes by the name Cathbad, in Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series of novels

Mike Malone, a character in the film 40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)