Meredith Maran is a journalist, essayist, memoirist, novelist, critic, and unrepentant punster whose work revolves around the theme of how things are versus how things ought to be (in her opinion). Her nonfiction books include Why We Write, Dirty, Class Dismissed, and What It’s Like to Live Now. Why We Write About Ourselves is forthcoming from Plume in 2015. Her first novel, A Theory of Small Earthquakes, was published in 2012. Her second novel is in progress—or, at least, being written now.
Meredith reviews books for People, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other venues. A recent transplant to Los Angeles, she operates “Casa Bungalita,” a one-person writers’ retreat in the garden of her restored bungalow. She divides her time between Hollywood, Silver Lake, and LA hiking trails wherever she finds them.
