Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American writer, born on Long Island, New York. She is the daughter of Hilma Wolitzer, a novelist who wrote novels including Ending, In the Flesh and Hearts.

She studied creative writing at Smith College and graduated from Brown University in 1981. Her first novel, Sleepwalking, a story of three college girls obsessed with poetry and death, was published in 1982. Her following books include Hidden Pictures (1986), This Is Your Life (1988), Friends for Life (1994), Surrender, Dorothy (1998), The Wife (2003), The Position (2005), and The Ten-Year Nap (2008). Her short story "Tea at the House" was featured in 1998's Best American Short Stories collection.

She has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop and Skidmore College and has written several Hollywood screenplays, most of which are unproduced. Two films have been based on her work; This Is My Life, scripted and directed by Nora Ephron, and the 2006 TV movie Surrender, Dorothy, starring Diane Keaton and directed by Charles McDougall.

Currently she lives in New York with her husband and sons.

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