Meg Waite Clayton

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

Meg Waite Clayton
Born	(1959-01-01) January 1, 1959 (age 66) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Occupation	Novelist, essayist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan
Period	1995–present
Genre	Literary fiction
Website
megwaiteclayton.com

Biography

A graduate of the 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]

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 Wednesday Daughters (2013)
• The Race for Paris (2015)
• Beautiful Exiles (2018)
• The Last Train to London (2019)
• The Postmistress of Paris (2021)