Fiction asks a lot of people, says Meg Wolitzer, "to tell them that you need to learn about these characters, to take time out in your day from being frightened for your livelihood and your children, ...

After 12 novels and two film adaptations, is Meg Wolitzer about to become a household name? She talks the long game – and her timely new bestseller The Female Persuasion is Meg Wolitzer’s 12th novel ...

Meg Wolitzer ’81 discussed the evolution of her decades-long career as a novelist at an event hosted by the Providence Athenaeum that filled the olive-green pews of First Unitarian Church Friday, ...

It’s been hard for critics to write about Meg Wolitzer’s The Interestings and Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs without leaving fictional territory and ranging into journalism. “Into the ongoing ...

Sarah McGrath has been editing Meg Wolitzer since The Wife, in 2003. The editor and novelist emailed recently about Wolitzer’s new novel The Interestings, out this month from Riverhead. Sarah McGrath: ...

It's no coincidence that the year her youngest son went off to college, Meg Wolitzer decided to write a book about teens. "There’s no more parental oversight in my life," the author tells me over ...

When it comes to dealing with Hollywood, author Meg Wolitzer has learned that patience is essential. Her novel “The Wife” was published in 2003. The following year, screenwriter Jane Anderson began ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hilma Wolitzer about her collection of short stories, Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket, which illuminates the complexity of motherhood and marriage. What ...

After the death of her husband of 68 years to COVID-19, writer Hilma Wolitzer says it took months before she could face a blank page in the silence of her apartment. But when the first few words of a ...