Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an

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Biography

A graduate of

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, Clayton also earned bachelor's degrees in History and Psychology from the

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. She worked as a lawyer at the Los Angeles firm of

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. 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 ''

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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 ''

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'' as " e 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.

Bibliography

* ''The Language of Light'' (2003) * ''The Wednesday Sisters'' (2007) * ''The Four Ms. Bradwells'' (2011) * ''The Race for Paris'' (2015) * ''Beautiful Exiles'' (2018) * ''The Last Train to London'' (2019)

References

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