![]() And college seemed to educate her to other realities, as well. She believes her parents' divorce when she was 8, when her older siblings went to live with her father while she stayed with her mom, left her security-minded. That didn't work out so well, though she was an associate at the powerhouse firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison when she quit the field. ![]() McCreight was forced to learn to write at home because even though she went to the creative breeding ground Vassar College, she was determined to be a lawyer. Of her second of four books that didn't sell, McCreight laughs, "The agent hated it. "I was struck by the masterful writing, especially for a first novel."Įxcept that "Reconstructing Amelia" wasn't exactly McCreight's first novel. ![]() "I was hugely impressed by the way Kim incorporated the different aspects of social media so adroitly and seamlessly," says Claire Wachtel, an editor at Harper whose list of authors includes Dennis Lehane, one of the biggest names in suspense. ![]()
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