Meg Waite Clayton
Author Interview - Meg Waite Clayton
This weekend was supposed to be the Unbound Book Festival in Columbia, MO and there were a few authors I was really looking forward to meeting. In lieu of meeting them in person, I’m sharing their author interviews today. Happy social distancing everyone, hope you’re all staying healthy!
Author I draw inspiration from: so many, but for The Last Train to London, certainly Anthony Doerr (All the Light We Cannot See)
Author Interview - Meg Waite Clayton
Favorite place to read a book: as a kid, I used to hide in a big tree in our backyard and read, but these days, by the fire
Book character I’d like to be stuck in an elevator with: Well, it would depend upon how long! For a long time, Dorothea Brooke from Middlemarch — I think she would wear well under stress. Short: probably Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird.
Author Interview - Meg Waite Clayton
The moment I knew I wanted to become an author: Not sure I can say a moment, but the summer between 5th and 6th grade, when I discovered through a library reading contest A Wrinkle in Time and To Kill a Mockingbird
Hardback, paperback, ebook or audiobook: for reading: paperback. Although I do collect hardcover first editions.
The last book I read: An Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
Author Interview - Meg Waite Clayton
Pen & paper or computer: Both! Also those little 3x5 notecards you were supposed to use for term papers back in the day. But a full draft—that is computer. My handwriting is impossible to read, even for me.
Book character I think I’d be best friends with: Elizabeth Bennett from Pride and Prejudice.
Author Interview - Meg Waite Clayton
If I wasn’t an author, I’d be a: well, lawyer, I suppose, as that is what I was first
Favorite decade in fashion history: I’m not much of a fashionista, but I do love all those great collars Grace Kelly wore in the 1950s
Place I’d most like to travel: On a regular basis, Paris. I so love the city. For a place I haven’t yet been, so many choice! I suppose Angel Falls, Venezuela, or the Milford Sound in New Zealand.
My signature drink: Don Julio 70, neat.
Favorite artist: Berthe Morisot
Number one on my bucket list: the Unbound Book Festival, of course! #2: Getting a screenplay produced.
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Author Interview - Meg Waite Clayton
