Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton
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
Website
www.megwaiteclayton.com

Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist and author of three novels: The Four Ms. Bradwells, The Wednesday Sisters and The Language of Light.^[1] 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 ^[2] and a popular book club choice.^[3][4][5]

She has also written for the Los Angeles Times,^[6][7] Writer's Digest, Runner's World, and public radio.^{[8] [9][10][11]} Her "After the Debate" on Forbes online^[12] was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review as "[t]he absolute best story about women’s issues stemming from the second Presidential debate."^[13]

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.^[14] 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.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Language of Light (2003)
• The Wednesday Sisters (2007)
• The Four Ms. Bradwells (2011)

References