Meg Waite Clayton

New York Times Bestselling Author

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Modern Love

I sent a tweet to my friend Caroline Leavitt yesterday about her terrific Modern Love column that is in today’s New York Times. She tweeted back
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Six times. Over years. And trust me if you haven’t read her work: Caroline can write! She’s published nine novels, most recently Pictures of You, which was a New York Times bestseller (and about which she wrote a really nice post here titled “The Story of My Start” a couple years ago). And she has a new novel, Is This Tomorrow, coming out in May.
Persistence. You haven’t heard that word here before, have you?
Remember: in order to be a real writer, you need to keep believing in yourself long beyond the point when a reasonable person would have ceased to do so.
And that’s my writer-love message for Valentine’s week. If you’re looking for some Valentine book love, you can find that here! – Meg
P.S. For Modern Love fans, there is a delightful “statistical breakdown” piece in the Awl, by Bill Kelley.

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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