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Ronald Malfi is an American novelist whose genres include horror, thrillers, mainstream, and literary fiction. Malfi is also a musician, and for a time he fronted the Baltimore-based alternative rock band Nellie Blide. He currently lives in Maryland. == Biographical Info == Ronald Malfi was born on April 28, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York.〔(Ronald Malfi's biography )〕 His father was a Secret Service agent and his mother was a stay-at-home mom, who eventually raised four children, of which Ronald was the eldest.〔(Horror Drive-In interview with Ronald Malfi )〕 His father's job saw the family transferred to various cities throughout the northeast until they eventually relocated to Severna Park, Maryland, where Ronald attended Severna Park High School until his graduation in 1995.〔(Severna Park Voice article )〕 Malfi went on to study at Anne Arundel Community College and ultimately received a degree in English from Towson University in 1999.〔(Press Release )〕〔(Crime Scene interview )〕 Malfi began writing stories at an early age.〔(dfuse interview )〕 His earliest short stories and small press novels saw Malfi using his full name, Ronald Damien Malfi, but he later dropped his middle name for his mass market releases.〔 In 2009, his novel ''Shamrock Alley,'' based on the true exploits of his own father, a retired Secret Service agent who went undercover and infiltrated the violent Irish gang in Manhattan known as The Westies,〔(Horror Drive-In interview with Ronald Malfi )〕 was released and optioned for television.〔(10 Questions with Ronald Malfi )〕 The novel also won a Silver Independent Publisher Book Awards medal (IPPY) in the thriller/suspense/mystery novel category in 2010.〔(2010 List of IPPY Award winners )〕 In 2010, his novel ''Snow'' was released in paperback to much acclaim, as reviewers touted the novel's near-flawless pacing〔(Snow review from Dark Scribe Magazine )〕 and descriptive writing.〔(Review from the Las Vegas Review-Journal )〕 Malfi claims the novel was "feverishly hammered out in about two weeks."〔(MK Horror's review of "Snow" )〕 The plot of the novel follows a group of strangers in to a town in Iowa which has been overrun by snow phantoms that can turn people into flesh-hungry zombies. In 2011, the publication of his novel ''Floating Staircase'' garnered him much praise, and the novel won a Gold IPPY Award〔(2012 IPPY Book Award results )〕〔(PR News )〕 and was nominated by the Horror Writers Association for the Bram Stoker Award for best novel of 2011.〔( HWA Stoker Award finalists, 2011 )〕 During a 2011 radio interview, Malfi stated that most of his fiction deals with the concept of lost or confused identity.〔(Funky Werepig radio interview )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ronald Malfi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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