Meg Waite Clayton (born January 1, 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist. 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. 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. 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 1959 births Living people University of Michigan Law School alumni Writers from Chicago Novelists from California Novelists from Kansas American women novelists Novelists from Illinois 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers