Meg Waite Clayton
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| Meg Waite Clayton | |
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| 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 |
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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
- ↑ Random House bio
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- ↑ San Francisco Chronicle, July 2008
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