O. R. Melling

O. R. Melling, born G. V. Whelan, is an author of several fantasy novels. Melling's novels are famous among both adults and young adults and contain stories mostly written around Irish and Celtic folklore, faeries in particular.

Melling was born in Ireland and was brought up in Toronto, Ontario with seven sisters and two brothers. She attended Loretto College School. When she was 18 years old, she hitched-hiked across Canada and through California. Melling travelled extensively in her youth, straying as far from Toronto as Malaysia and northern Borneo.

With a B.A. in philosophy and Celtic Studies from Trinity College in the University of Toronto and an M.A. in Mediaeval History, Melling has written film scripts and papers and has become a literary critic under her actual name, G. V. Whelan.

Currently living in her hometown of Bray, County Wicklow, Melling is still writing and has a daughter named Findabhair.

Many of Melling's books have now been translated to German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Slovenian, and Czech.

Books

• The Chronicles of Faerie series
  • The Hunter's Moon (1993)
  • The Summer King (Amulet, 2006)
  • The Light-Bearer's Daughter (Amulet, 2007)
  • The Book of Dreams (Amulet, 2009)
  • The Chronicles of Faerie, 2002 omnibus edition (3 vols.)
  • The Golden Book of Faerie, 2004 omnibus edition (4 vols.)

• The Singing Stone (1986)
• The Druid's Tune (1983)
• My Blue Country (Toronto: Viking, 1996), OCLC 35936230
• Falling Out of Time (1989)
• People of the Great Journey: would you go if you were called?, OCLC 857524886

External links

• Official website
• Biography at Mythic Imagination Institute (mythicjourneys.org)
• O. R. Melling at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• O. R. Melling at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records