A Little More About Meg Wolitzer

Dan Cryer (Newsday) recently interviewed Meg Wolitzer about growing up in Long Island in the late '60s and early '70s, where she first honed her writerly imagination:

"Streets in the neighborhood were named after women in the builder's family--Ann Drive, Leslie Drive, Harriet Drive. I used to wonder who was Harriet and so on. I turned it into something writerly in my head. Though it was a subdivision and all the houses were similar, I liked to try to figure out what the differences were. What about the house that had no books? And there was a house that had no furniture. The people who lived there kept saying that they had just moved in, but of course eventually they'd been there a long time. There was a story there."

Wolitzer also recently wrote an essay for the Washington Post about the varying speeds at which writers write.