Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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If You Tell the Truth

Stumbled across this Mark Twain quote as I’m going through revisions to a new novel I hope to get to my editor tomorrow: “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
Now if only I were writing nonfiction! Instead I’m trying to remember all the many things I changed between this draft and the last one, and flow them through consistently.
Which leaves me thinking what a weird life I lead, that I spend my days trying to make stories that aren’t true seem like they are. – Meg

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Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times and internationally bestselling author of THE LAST TRAIN TO LONDON, a Jewish Book Award finalist based on the true story of the Kindertransport rescue of ten thousand children from Nazi-occupied Europe—and one brave woman who helped them escape. Her six prior novels include the Langum-Prize honored The Race for Paris and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, she has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Forbes, Runners World, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. megwaiteclayton.com