Meredith Maran
Like a lot of women her age, MEREDITH MARAN has a hard time believing she’s a woman of her age. And yet she’s published, and been on the speaking circuit with, more than a dozen books, including The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention, Why We Write About Ourselves, Why We Write, My Lie: A True Story of False Memory, Dirty: A Search for Answers Inside America’s Teenage Drug Epidemic, and Class Dismissed: A Year in the Life of an American High School. When she’s not hiking Mount Hollywood, attending readings at indie bookstores, or scouring Los Angeles’ finest thrift shops, she's writing for venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and Salon. The grateful recipient of fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo and a member of the National Book Critics Circle, Meredith lives in a Silver Lake bungalow that’s even older than she is.
Meredith has been a keynote speaker at venues including the SNAP Conference, the California Writer's Club, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Charles Schwab Foundation, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Educators for Social Responsibility, and the Education Writers of America. She’s been Writer in Residence at UCLA and at the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, and a fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mesa Refuge, and Ragdale.
The author of a dozen nonfiction books and an acclaimed novel, Meredith is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the MacDowell Fellows West. She writes features, essays, and book reviews for People, Salon, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Real Simple, Mother Jones, Good Housekeeping, and other publications.
She lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
For more about Meredith and her works, go to http://www.meredithmaran.com/
