International bestseller and book club favorite Meg Waite Clayton is the author of nine novels, most recently the instant USA Today bestseller Typewriter Beach, which is set here on the central coast, and the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris and The Last Train to London. Registration is recommended and walk-ins are welcome.
Settle in for a morning of captivating storytelling, conversation and insight into the writing process as Meg discusses her latest novel, published by HarperCollins in July. Typewriter Beach, set in 1957 and 2018 Carmel-by-the-Sea and Hollywood, is an unforgettable story of the unlikely friendship between an Oscar-nominated screenwriter and a young actress hoping to be Alfred Hitchcock’s new star. In graceful prose and with an intimate understanding of human nature, she captures the joys and frustrations of being a writer, being a woman, being a star, and being in love in this story of two women separated by generations—a tale of ideas and ideals, passion and persistence, creativity, politics, and family.
Her The Wednesday Sisters is one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time, and her novels have been featured on Good Morning America and the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice list, and in People and other newspapers and magazines all over the world. They have been IndieNext, Library Reads, LoanStars Librarians, USA Today, Book of the Month Club, Costco Book Club, Target Book Club, and Amazon Editors’ picks. She's been a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the Langum Prize, and Barbara Kingsolver’s Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and her screenplay for The Last Train to London was chosen for the Meryl Streep- and Nicole Kidman-sponsored The Writers Lab. Her books have been published in 24 languages. She also writes extensively for major newpapers and magazines, and for public radio, and she mentors in the OpEd Project.
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