Molly McCloskey
Molly McCloskey (born 1964 in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania) is an American writer who lived in Ireland for many years. Her fiction has won the RTÉ
Francis MacManus Award (1995) and the inaugural Fish Short Story Prize (1996). Her story "Another Country" was anthologized in ''The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories'' (2005), edited by
David Marcus. In 2009, another of her short stories, "This Isn’t Heaven," was selected by
Richard Ford as one of the prize-winning stories in the 2009
Davy Byrne’s Irish Writing Award and was anthologized in ''Davy Byrne’s Stories''. Her first work of non-fiction, a memoir of her schizophrenic brother Mike, called ''Circles Around the Sun: In Search of a Lost Brother'', was named by
The Sunday Times (UK) as its Memoir of the Year for 2011.
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