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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton Biography

New York Times and international bestseller and book club favorite Meg Waite Clayton is the author of nine novels, including Typewriter Beach (Harper, July 1, 2025). Her prior novels include the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris (a Good Morning America Buzz Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Publishers Weekly notable book, and a Costco Book Club, People Magazine, Indie Next booksellers, LoanStars librarian, Book of the Month, USA Today, and Amazon Editors' pick which the San Francisco Chronicle calls "'Casablanca' if Rick had an artsy bent … powerful"); The Last Train to London (a National Jewish Book Award finalist Kristin Hannah calls "an absolutely fascinating, beautifully rendered story of love, loss, and heroism"); The Wednesday Sisters (named one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time on a list with The Three Musketeers!); and the #1 Amazon fiction bestseller Beautiful Exiles. Her books have been finalists for Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, the Langum Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award, and have been published in 24 languages. Her screenplay for The Last Train to London was chosen for the prestigious Meryl Streep- and Nicole Kidman-sponsored The Writers Lab.

Meg's novels draw on the history of real women facing the kinds of challenges women face, and women defying the odds to make differences, large and small, in the world. Inspirations include Mary Jayne Gold, Truus Wijsmuller, Beatrix Potter, Martha Gellhorn and other journalists and photographers, and the women of Hollywood past and present.

Meg has written more than 100 shorter pieces for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Runner's World, and public radio, often on the particular challenges women face. She is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan and Michigan Law School. She mentors for the OpEd Project and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, the Authors Guild, and the California bar. She divides her time between California and Connecticut.

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