Bryan Malessa

'''Bryan Joachim Malessa''' (born May 16, 1964, in Chagrin Falls, Ohio) is an American novelist. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the Oscar Wilde Centre at Trinity College, Dublin. He lives in greater Los Angeles.

== Novels ==

=== The Flight ===

In reviewing The Flight (Harper Perennial), set on the Eastern Front (World War II), The Irish Times states "With this story...Bryan Malessa joins the ranks of [[Nobel Prize in Literature|[Nobel Laureate]]] Günter Grass, Rachel Seiffert and others in taking on the major preoccupations of post-war German literature...and the role of literature in history and memory."<ref>McClements, Freya. 'Escape From East Prussia' book review. The Irish Times, 7 April 2007.</ref> In addition, The Independent notes that "The Flight joins a small but growing body of literature on the subject, but the novel does not seek to exonerate the Germans."<ref>Schuler, CJ. 'The Flight' book review. The Independent, 5 March 2007.</ref>

=== The War Room ===

In ''Financial Times'', Mark Simpson wrote "Billed as 'an epic investigation into America's underbelly,' The War Room has a Catcher in the Rye quality to it, but without the toxicity."<ref>Simpson, Mark (journalist). 'The War Room' book review. Financial Times, 14 February 2011</ref>

== Other works ==

He is also coeditor of Re/mapping the Occident (University of California, 1995) and a journalist whose best-known piece is a widely cited career retrospective interview "Once Was King" with World Champion and three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond.

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Sources== *The Irish Times, Escape From East Prussia [https://www.irishtimes.com/news/escape-from-east-prussia-1.1200861] *The Independent (UK) review of The Flight [https://web.archive.org/web/20100226144250/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-flight-by-bryan-malessa-438861.html] *Financial Times "The War Room" [https://www.ft.com/content/327918e4-3563-11e0-aa6c-00144feabdc0] *Bryan Malessa, "Once Was King: An interview with Greg LeMond" [http://www.roble.net/marquis/coaching/lemond98.html]

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