Michael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning 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).
Malone is well known for his successful stint writing the soap opera One Life to Live. He was the serial's head writer from 1991 to 1996 and ...
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Michael Malone is an Emmy Award-winning 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).
Malone is well known for his successful stint writing the soap opera One Life to Live. He was the serial's head writer 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...
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