Lionel Shriver

Profile: Full name: Margaret Ann Shriver Area of interest: Society (esp. family issues & parenting, womens's issues), contemporary culture, US culture & politics Journals/Organisation: The Guardian Email: Personal website: Website: http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/lionelshriver Blog: Representation: InkWell Management | http://www.casarotto.co.uk/client/lionel-shriver-12159

Biography: About: Education: Columbia University: Russian and English Career: Taught English in New York; reported on the Troubles in Belfast for 12 years; published six novels before achieving popular and critical acclaim for the novel We Need to Talk About Kevin; has written a column for The Guardian since 2005 Current position/role: columnist also writes/has written for: The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the Philadelphia Enquirer Other roles/Main role: journalist and author Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Interview: Author of We Need To Talk About Kevin talks with Robert Birnbaum IdentityTheory.com, 24th July 2003 Interview: BBC Radio 4, Woman’s Hour: Lionel Shriver joins Jenni Murray to talk about a book that raises profound questions about motherhood, 15th October 2003 (audio) Interview: We need to talk... The Observer, 22nd April 2007 Lionel Shriver interview - Mass murderers, mothers who hate their children and, now, a husband so saintly his dying wife is disgusted by him... Is there any taboo the controversial author won't tackle? - Nigel Farndale, The Telegraph, 25th March 2010 Broadcast media: Appearances on BBC2’s Late Review panel Video: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2651543 Controversy/Criticism: We need to talk about 'dumb' literary awards, Prize-winning author Lionel Shriver hits out at publishers and says latest accolade is a waste, By Arifa Akbar, Arts Correspondent, The Independent, 9th June 2010 Jason Deans (Organgrinder blog): Shriver attacks British television 26th August 2007 Awards/Honours: Winner of the Orange Prize For Fiction, 2005 for ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ BBC News: Honesty is the key for Orange winner 7th June 2005; The Post-Birthday World was elected by Time magazine as one of the top 10 books for 2007 Scoops: Other: married to jazz drummer Jeff Williams

Books & Debate: Early retirement (Thesis (M.F.A.) Columbia University, OCLC 50766367 , 1982 The female of the species OCLC 14719072 , 1987 Checker and the Derailleurs: a novel OCLC 17676958 , 1988 The bleeding heart OCLC 22335942 , 1990 Ordinary decent criminals OCLC 26548985 , 1992 Double fault: a novel OCLC 36085175 , 1997 We need to talk about Kevin OCLC 50948454 , 2003 A perfectly good family OCLC 148667635 , 2006 A post-birthday world OCLC 71223503 , 2007, see: interview TheAge.com, 3rd March 2007 Latest work: So much for that: a novel OCLC 419855931, April 2010. Reviewed here in The Sunday Times by Tom Devenson Speaking/Appearances: Current debate:BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour: Jenni Murray speaks to Lionel Shriver and to Valerie Sinason an analyst who works with children and adults, specialising in trauma about the impact of ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ on psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with abused and abusing children, 9th January 2008 (audio)

The Guardian: Column name: Remit/Info: Society (esp. family issues & parenting, women's issues), contemporary culture, US culture & politics Section: Comment Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: Website: Guardian.co / Lionel Shriver Commissioning editor: Day published: Varies Regularity: Infrequent Column format: Average length:

Articles: The battle of the book reviews - Professional critics are no more reliable than Amazon ratings, a study shows. So do we really need them? - 19th May 2012 How Hillary Clinton surprised me - I was disgusted when Obama appointed her secretary of state, but Clinton has been a credit to her country and her gender - 27th January 2012 The dangers of film adaptations - Awful film adaptations follow authors for the rest of their lives but Lynne Ramsay's version of my book We Need To Talk About Kevin is terrific - 21st October 2011 Lionel Shriver talks about Kevin - How does it feel to have your widely rejected manuscript become a best-selling, prize-winning novel, then a book-club favourite and now the toast of the Cannes film festival? The author of We Need to Talk About Kevin explains - 17th May 2011 Britain's intellectuals: leading thinkers have their say - Ten celebrated thinkers offer their thoughts on Britain's relationship with its intelligentsia - 8th May 2011 When the snow hits the fan, get real and stay home - It's another big freeze with more travel chaos forecast for the weekend. So why do we always fail to heed the warnings? - 17th December 2010 Marriage: an institutionalised incentive to gold-digging - Pre-nups aren't pretty, but they protect us from a law that says because you love someone they have a claim on everything you own - 23rd October 2010 I write a nasty book. And they want a girly cover on it - Publishing's notion of what women want is dated and patronising. In my case it's like trying to stuff a rottweiler in a dress - 3rd September 2010 This phoney finger-wagging won't talk Iran out of nukes - Drop the moral posturing, Hillary – US hypocrisy will be all too clear in Tehran. Only realpolitik can halt their nuclear ambitions - 17th August 2010 Beautiful Betty: a warning from home-making history - To see the existential confusion of Mad Men's disconsolate housewife is to grasp the relevance of The Feminine Mystique - 10th March 2010 My brother is eating himself to death - Lionel Shriver feared her older brother's weight problem would kill him. Days after she wrote this, he died - 1st December 2009 Reluctant urban runner - From the solitude to the spectacle, Lionel Shriver enjoys everything about her nocturnal runs. Apart, that is, from the exercise involved - 1st November 2009 I sold my family for a novel - When Lionel Shriver wrote a book based on her family, she expected 'a little aggro'. But all hell broke loose and the rift with her parents has yet to heal - 18th October 2009 My kind of blue - Sexy, daring and irresistible, jazz didn't just turn music on its head - it dragged visual art into the 20th century. Lionel Shriver on a show that captures its jangling madness - 19th March 2009 Don't be fooled by the 'little' woman - Helen Suzman's legacy will last far longer than the enemies who called her a 'vicious little cat' - 4th January 2009 Give me a randy politician any time - as long as he cuts inflation - John Edwards's confession shows it is time to care about our leaders' policies, not their peccadilloes - 17th August 2008 If the US election were a novel, the climax came in chapter three - now it has literally lost the plot - 17th July 2008 A penchant for dissatisfaction is great when you're young; at 80, it's self-destructive - 15th June 2008 The US taste for ghoulish 'murderabilia' - 29th May 2008 It's time for Mailer's ghost to rest in peace - Why do readers care about authorial tittle-tattle? Clearly, it's their work that counts, not the person - 27th April 2008 Finally, a jury can decide whether a reprobate dared to throw her apple core to the ground - 14th February 2008 Last time, Americans elected a moron. If they do better this time, I can show my face without shame - A Hillary win would not strike a blow for women's rights, but merely set a precedent for ascension to the presidency by marriage - 10th January 2008 I may recycle yoghurt pots and travel by bike - but I refuse to give up my old-style light bulbs - 3rd January 2008

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