Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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If You Think Continuing to Rewrite is Wasted Time…

…take a look at the winner of this year’s National Book Award for fiction: Shadow Mountain. It’s a reworking of three novels previously published by Peter Matthiessen, who said in his acceptance speech last night, “I’ve had a hard time over the years persuading people that fiction was my natural thing.”
The Non-Fiction award went to Annette Gordon-Reed’s The Hemingses of Monticello – which rumor has it she won on her birthday. The Young People’s Literature award winner was Judy Blundell’s What I Saw and How I Lied. Poetry: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems. And you can read more about it all on The National Book Award Site – including readings by the finalists – or in The New York Times. – 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