Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver is a novelist and has written for The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Enquirer, among other publications. She currently writes a weekly column for the Guardian.Born in the US, Shriver has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast. She is married to a jazz drummer and is based in London and New York.Her earlier novels include The Female of the Species, Ordinary Decent Criminals, A Perfectly Good Family and Game Control. We Need to Talk About Kevin is her seventh novel. Lionel Shriver is a novelist and has written for The Economist, the Wall Street Journal and the Philadelphia Inquirer, amongst other publications. Her novel, We Need to Talk about Kevin, won the Orange Prize for Fiction 2005. She lives in London and New York.