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Lionel Shriver
Novelist
Lionel Shriver's latest novel, "So Much for That," was published in March 2010. Other novels include the New York Times bestseller "The Post-Birthday World" and the international bestseller "We Need to Talk About Kevin," which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include "Double Fault," "A Perfectly Good Family," and "Checker and the Derailleurs." Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London.
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The author stays up trying to figuring out where to position her writing desk, and solves many of her fictional questions in her sleep.
12 min
Another problem with the U.S. healthcare system: dying shouldn’t be thought of as a war.
4 min
The bestselling author learned a lesson when she based characters in a novel on members of her family.
3 min
While there is value to graduate writing degrees, so many of the young writers encouraged by their MFA professors aren’t going to make it. This leaves Shriver uneasy.
7 min
If you speak too much to the immediate moment, it’s already moved on by the time your book is published.
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The author’s impulse to write stems from her feelings of social incompetence.
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Lionel Shriver’s career began after winning a writing contest about her school’s newly renovated cafeteria.