Meg Waite Clayton

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Meg Waite Clayton
File:Novelist Meg Waite Clayton.jpg
Born January 1, 1959
Washington, D.C. United States
Occupation Novelist, Essayist
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Michigan
Period 1995–present
Genre Literary fiction
Website
www.megwaiteclayton.com

Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist.[1]

Writing career

In addition to her work as a novelist, she has written for the Los Angeles Times,[2][3] Writer's Digest, Runner's World, and public radio.[4] [5][6][7]

Biography

A graduate of University of Michigan Law School, Clayton also earned bachelor's degrees in History and Psychology from the University of Michigan. She worked as a lawyer at the Los Angeles firm of Latham & Watkins. She grew up primarily in suburban Kansas City and suburban Chicago, where she graduated from Glenbrook North High School.[8] She began writing in earnest after moving to a horse farm outside of Baltimore, Maryland, where her first novel is set. She now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Awards and honors

Clayton's first novel, The Language of Light, was a finalist for the 2002 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, now the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her novel The Wednesday Sisters became a bestseller [9] and a popular book club choice.[10][11][12] Her "After the Debate" on Forbes online[13] was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review as "[t]he absolute best story about women’s issues stemming from the second Presidential debate."[14] The Race for Paris was a 2015 Langum Prizes Historical Fiction Honorable Mention.

Bibliography

  • The Language of Light (2003)
  • The Wednesday Sisters (2007)
  • The Four Ms. Bradwells (2011)
  • The Race for Paris (2015)

References

  1. Random House bio
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  9. San Francisco Chronicle, July 2008
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