Bio of Paula McLain

Paula McLain was born in Fresno, California in 1965. She was abandoned by her parents and became wards of the California Court System with her two sisters. Her and her sisters moved in and out of foster homes for the next fourteen years. Paula McLain discovered she wanted to become a writer and received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan in 1996. Since then, she has written two collections of poetry, a memoir called Like Family and novels called A Ticket to Ride and The Paris Wife. Paula McLain now lives in Cleveland Ohio with her family.

Her website is: www.pariswife.com

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