Meg Waite Clayton | |
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| 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]
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. [2] 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.
In addition to her work as a novelist, she has written for the Los Angeles Times , [3] [4] Writer's Digest , Runner's World , and public radio. [5] [6] [7] [8]
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.
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