Palo Alto author Meg Waite Clayton is the author of the national bestselling novel The Wednesday Sisters, and The Language of Light, which was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize.
The story of my writing starts with a ubiquitous Mom Tool: a little brown paper lunch bag, the kind my sons took their sandwiches and Oreo cookies to school in whenever they'd left their plastic Power Rangers lunch boxes behind the day before. I've been raising children all the years I've been writing, as the Wednesday Sisters in my novel do. But the lunchbag that started my writing career wasn't ...
Like many writers unhappy about the recent underrepresentation of women authors on the top-books-of-the-year lists, I've joined in the She Writes Day of Action. Below is a short post I wrote for the She Writes Blog: On the whole, it’s been a pretty good year for women in literature: Huerta Mueller won the Nobel; Hilary Mantel the Booker, Annette Gordon-Reed the National Book Award, and ...
Kepler's Books doesn't look quite the same as it did when peace activist Roy Kepler first opened its doors in 1955 - or so folks who've been around Palo Alto and Menlo Park since then tell me - but those are its roots. It was a serious store where serious readers and thinkers gathered. But then, as now, it was a fun place to hang out, too: The Grateful Dead gave live shows at the store back in ...
