Meg Waite Clayton is a New York Times bestselling author of six novels, most recently Beautiful Exiles. Her prior novels include the Langum-Prize honoured The Race for Paris; The Language of Light, a finalist for the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (now the PEN/Bellwether); and The Wednesday Sisters, one of Entertainment Weekly's 25 Essential Best Friend Novels of all time. She has also written for the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and public radio, often on the subject of the particular challenges women face. A graduate of the University of Michigan and its law school, Meg also writes "Listen In," a monthly audiobook review column for the San Francisco Chronicle.