Bridie Clark
Bridie Clark was born on October 7, 1977, and spent a happy childhood in West Hartford, CT. Her parents encouraged her early love of reading and writing.
In 1999, Bridie graduated from Harvard College, where she was an editor of The Harvard Crimson. She has since worked as a book and magazine editor, and written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, Quest, and Elegant Bride.
Bridie’s debut novel,
Because She Can
, was published in nineteen countries around the world and was reviewed and featured in dozens of magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Glamour UK, and USA TODAY. Her second novel,
The Overnight Socialite
, was published by Weinstein Books in December 2009.
In 2006, she co-wrote
The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media
(Atria, July 2007) and co-founded Blue State Coffee.
Bridie lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
“I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I loved, daydreaming that someday a brilliant talent might see me as the person who 'made her book possible' or 'enhanced every page with editorial wisdom and insight.' Could I be the Maxwell Perkins to some future Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe?”
“One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker, Wyatt mused, was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.”