Richard Melo
Richard Melo | |
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Born | San Francisco, California, U.S. | August 10, 1968
Occupation | Novelist, critic |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | San Francisco State University |
Genre | Literary |
Richard Melo (born August 10, 1968) is an American author and book reviewer. He is the author of the novels Happy Talk and Jokerman 8.
Biography
Richard Melo was born in San Francisco, California and attended San Francisco State University. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.[1]
As a book critic since 2004, Melo has reviewed books by Thomas Pynchon, William Vollmann, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Robbins, among others.[2] Melo is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and has written about Tom Wolfe for the NBCC blog.[3]
His fiction has appeared in Willamette Week and Gobshite Quarterly. He began his career as a playwright with two productions appearing on the Mt. Hood Community College stage in the early 1990s. He is a graduate of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
Notes
- ^ "About Novelist Richard Melo (Including biographical information)". Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
- ^ "Book reviews by Richard Melo". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
- ^ "News & Notes". Archived from the original on May 13, 2012.