Author of the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris, The Last Train to London, and 6 other novels
Years ago I was a finalist for the Barbara Kingsolver-founded Bellwether Prize in Support of Literature of Social Change, which this year has become the …
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On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... Books Make Great Gifts! Happy Holidays from Meg Waite Clayton, author of The Four Ms. …
Was it Baudelaire who said, "Always be a poet, even in prose"? I came to my current favorite poem, Jane Kenyon's incantatory "Let Evening Come," by hearing John …
Which writing friends are you particularly thankful for this Thanksgiving? For me, the things I accomplish are only achieved with the support of family and …
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Uh-oh. The year's "great books" lists have begun. Female authors have put on our literary heels and danced backward as well as we can, but it looks again like …
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"The main rule of the writer is never to pity your manuscript. The wastebasket is a writer's best friend. Mine is on a steady diet." - Isaac Bashevis Singer, …
Without meaning to disparage the great work some book reviewers do, I came across a passage in Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa about how critics undermine …
“Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.” - Margaret Atwood In all the …
"The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing today which is called fiction contains such a …
