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Lionel Shriver
Novelist

Lionel Shriver

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We Need to Talk About Kevin.

We Need to Talk About Kevin · So Much for That

Born
18 May 1957
Birthplace
Gastonia

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Lionel Shriver

American novelist and commentator whose fiction examines difficult relationships and social conflicts. Won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.

Early life

Education and name

Born Margaret Ann Shriver in North Carolina and adopted Lionel as a teenager. Studied at Barnard and Columbia.

Career

  1. Early novels

    Developing a career

    Published several novels before wider recognition.

  2. 2005

    Orange Prize

    Won for We Need to Talk About Kevin.

  3. 2010

    Health-care fiction

    Published So Much for That.

Selected work

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Explored motherhood and responsibility through the aftermath of violence.

So Much for That

Examined illness, money and the US health-care system.

Beyond work

Family and travel

Married jazz drummer Jeff Williams in 2003. Has lived in several countries, including the United Kingdom and Portugal.

Sources & photo creditBiography and career ↗Biographical references ↗

Original photograph. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.

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