Meg Waite Clayton
Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959, in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist.
Meg Waite Clayton
- Name
- Meg Waite Clayton
- Born
- 1 January 1959
- Birthplace
- Washington, D.C., U.S.
- Education
- University of Michigan
- Occupation
- Novelist, essayist
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- creative and professional writing · law
- Languages
- English
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• Name — Meg Waite Clayton • Born — 1 January 1959 • Birthplace — Washington, D.C., U.S. • Education — University of Michigan • Occupation — Novelist, essayist • Period — 1995–present • Genre — Literary fiction • Website — megwaiteclayton.com/ Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959, in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist.
Biography
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. 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, Writer's Digest, Runner's World, and public radio.
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.
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