Note: Malley played sandlot baseball in Brooklyn as a boy. Later he was a student of Robert Donald Spector at Long Island University, Department of English, and at least English instructor there. --obituary, NINE 13.2, Spring 2005 (opening paragraphs viewed at Questia.com) Malley wrote the Richard Brautigan volume in Writers for the Seventies (1972). Library of Congress does not identify Malley (assigns no LCCN) and its catalog shows only the one published book, as does WorldCat.