Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times bestseller and book club favorite Meg Waite Clayton is the author of nine novels, most recently Typewriter Beach and the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris and The Last Train to London. Her books have been featured on Good Morning America, the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice list, People Magazine, and newspapers, magazines, tv and radio all over the world. They have been IndieNext, Library Reads, LoanStars librarians, USA Today, Book of the Month Club, Target Book Club, Costco Book Club, and Amazon Editors’ picks, as well as finalists for Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, the Langum Prize, and the National Jewish Book Award. Her The Wednesday Sisters is one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. Clayton's books have been published in 24 languages, and her screenplay for The Last Train to London was chosen for the Meryl Streep- and Nicole Kidman-sponsored The Writers Lab. She has written extensively for major newspapers, magazines, and public radio, often on the particular challenges women face. She mentors in the OpEd Project, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, PEN, and the California bar. She divides her time between California and Connecticut.