Meg Bortin – Author Journalist Blogger
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Meg Bortin is an award-winning American journalist and author based in Paris. As a reporter and editor, she covered international affairs for 30 years, with postings in Paris, London and Moscow. Her previous literary works include a memoir, Desperate to Be a Housewife (Mirabelle Books, 2013), and a personal essay, Dear Djeneba, in Family Wanted: Stories of Adoption (Granta Books, 2005; Random House, 2006). She is also the author of a culinary blog, The Everyday French Chef.
Meg’s new novel, The Rites of Man, tells the story of an independent-minded woman whose entanglement with an author upends both their lives and sparks a national conversation about artistic legitimacy and the rights of women. The story is set in 1996 and the author in question is Tom Paine, who built his National Book Award-winning career by writing contemporary novels under the titles of his revolutionary namesake, Thomas Paine: Common Sense, The American Crisis. And there the trouble begins…
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