Occupation Novelist, Essayist Genre Literary fiction Nationality American Name Meg Clayton | Role Novelist Period 1995–present Education University of Michigan | |
Books The Wednesday Sisters, The Wednesday Daughter, The Four Ms Bradwells, The Language of Light, The Race for Paris Profiles | ||
Alma mater University of Michigan | ||
Meg Waite Clayton - Writing to Reader Expectations
Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist.
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- Meg Waite Clayton Writing to Reader Expectations
- Authors google meg waite clayton
- Writing career
- Biography
- Awards and honors
- References
Authors google meg waite clayton
Writing career
In addition to her work as a novelist, she has written for the Los Angeles Times, Writer's Digest, Runner's World, and public radio.
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. 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 and a popular book club choice. Her "After the Debate" on Forbes online was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review as "[t]he absolute best story about women’s issues stemming from the second Presidential debate." The Race for Paris was a 2015 Langum Prizes Historical Fiction Honorable Mention.