He wrote best-selling mysteries and family sagas, and also examined homophobia and sexual assault as head writer of the soap opera 'One Life to Live.'
,” was set in a small Connecticut town and featured characters with names like Habzi Rabies, Rich Rage and Mrs. Canopy, an arts patron who goes to the cemetery to speak at her late husband’s grave. “She did not, necessarily, assume that he lay listening beneath it,” Mr. Malone wrote. “For that matter, he had rarely listened when he had sat across from her at dinner, or before the living room fire. The change was that he no longer got up and went to bed before she finished.
It was partly so that he could tell socially relevant stories to a national audience that Mr. Malone left the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught fiction writing, to join “One Life to Live” as head writer in 1991. “I couldn’t resist it,” he told Mr. Malone and his writing team won a 1994 Daytime Emmy Award after crafting a series of widely discussed episodes about a college student, Marty Saybrooke , who is gang raped by a jock and his fraternity brothers, and who later brings her attackers to trial. Mr. Malone had previously made headlines for a story arc that featured the AIDS Memorial Quilt and centered on a teenage boy who is bullied for being gay.
Mr. Malone left the show in 1996 and worked as head writer for the NBC soap opera “Another World” before returning to “One Life to Live” in 2003 and 2004. During his second stint as head writer, he worked on a suspense novel, “,” that was tied into the series, with Mr. Malone and one of the show’s characters, Marcie Walsh, both listed as authors. The book made national bestseller lists and employed some of the attention-grabbing techniques that Mr.
Canada Latest News, Canada Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
One man dead, one man injured after shooting in PhoenixA 23-year-old man is dead and another man is injured after suffering gunshot wounds in the area of South Mountain Avenue and 24th Street on Sunday.
Read more »
Orioles’ Martin Wipes Out Child While Sledding Down Hill at LLWSOrioles’ Richie Martin wipes out child while sledding down hill at the Little League World Series
Read more »
Camila Cabello Joins Hans Zimmer for ‘Frozen Planet II’ Song ‘Take Me Back Home’Camila Cabello and Hans Zimmer have teamed up to write and record the new song “Take Me Back Home” for 'Frozen Planet II'
Read more »
Broker’s fee hits nearly $20K for rent stabilized one-bedroom NYC apartmentA real estate agent collected an eye popping, nearly $20,000 fee last month on a cheap Upper West Side pad.
Read more »
Formula One Finalizes 2026 Engine Rules -- More Electrons, Fewer Molecules (With Video)Formula One has established new engine rules starting in 2026 that will use sustainable fuels and more powerful electric motors.
Read more »
Virginia Patton, Actress in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ Dies at 97A niece of World War II general George Patton, she was worried about how she would eat buttered popcorn while wearing white gloves in the classic film.
Read more »