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Molly McCloskey was born on 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American writer (born 1964). Discover Molly McCloskey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 60 years old?

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Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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1964

Molly McCloskey (born 1964 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American writer who lived in Ireland for many years.

1972

Later, after her father was made head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers in 1972, the family moved to Oregon.

McCloskey was educated in St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, which she attended on a sports scholarship.

1989

In 1989, she moved to Ireland where she married and settled in Sligo.

While living in Sligo, she played basketball with the Sligo All-Stars team.

1992

In 1992, she published her first story in Dermot Healy’s literary journal, Force 10.

1995

Her fiction has won the RTÉ Francis MacManus Award (1995) and the inaugural Fish Short Story Prize (1996).

1997

She published her first book of short stories, Solomon’s Seal, in 1997.

1998

In 1998, after a brief return to Philadelphia, she moved to Dublin and completed a Master of Philosophy Degree at University College Dublin.

She has an MFA from Boston University.

She has written for a number of publications, including The Guardian, The Irish Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Dublin Review.

2005

Her story "Another Country" was anthologized in The Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (2005), edited by David Marcus.

2006

Protection, her debut novel, set in contemporary Ireland, appeared in 2006.

2009

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.

In the 2009–2010 academic year, she was the Writer Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin, where she taught on the M. Phil.

course in creative writing.

She has worked in the UN’s Kenya-based office coordinating international aid to Somalia.

She has also lived in Kosovo.

She now lives in Washington, D.C.

2011

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.

McCloskey, a daughter of well-known basketball coach, Jack McCloskey, spent her early childhood in North Carolina, where her father coached the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

Her memoir, Circles Around the Sun, was published in 2011 to favorable reviews, including one by Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Anne Enright, who wrote in The Guardian: "Every once in a while, a writer's voice hits such a clear note, the resulting book has the kind of sweetness that makes you hold it in your hands a moment before finding a place for it on your shelves. Circles Around the Sun is this kind of book: it's a keeper. A memoir of a schizophrenic brother, written with great care and simplicity, it is one of those stories that waited until its writer was ready to tell it."

2017

In 2017, she published the novel Straying (titled When Light is Like Water in the UK) to favorable reviews; The Guardian called it "ferociously well written."

It was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards.