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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.

As a book critic since 2004, Melo has reviewed books by Thomas Pynchon, William Vollmann, Colson Whitehead, and Tom Robbins, among others. Melo is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and has written about Tom Wolfe for the NBCC blog.

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

1. "About Novelist Richard Melo (Including biographical information)". Archived from the original on 2013-10-20. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
2. "Book reviews by Richard Melo". Archived from the original on 2008-11-19. Retrieved 2013-03-10.
3. "News & Notes". Archived from the original on May 13, 2012.

External links

• Official Richard Melo web site

• 21st-century American novelists
• American male novelists
• 1968 births
• Living people
• Writers from San Francisco
• Writers from Portland, Oregon
• San Francisco State University alumni
• Environmental fiction writers
• 21st-century American male writers
• Novelists from Oregon