1. Heather O'Neill was born on 1973 and is a Canadian novelist, poet, short story writer, screenwriter and journalist, who published her debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals, in 2006.
13 Facts About Heather O'Neill
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Heather O'Neill's father is from Montreal and her mother is American.
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Heather O'Neill spent the first part of her childhood in Montreal.
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Heather O'Neill was educated at Dawson College and McGill University.
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Heather O'Neill has one daughter, Arizona, whom she raised as a single parent.
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Heather O'Neill wrote the screenplay for the 2000 film Saint Jude, based in part on her own early short story "Big Al".
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Heather O'Neill published her debut novel Lullabies for Little Criminals in 2006 and it immediately became a bestseller.
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Heather O'Neill published her second novel The Girl Who Was Saturday Night in 2014.
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Heather O'Neill has made contributions to The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, This American Life, CBC Radio, Rookie Magazine, Elle, Chatelaine, the National Post, The Globe and Mail the Toronto Star, and The Walrus.
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Heather O'Neill was on the jury for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
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In 2019 Heather O'Neill was awarded the Writers' Trust Fellowship for her body of work.
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Heather O'Neill appeared as a panelist in the 2024 edition of Canada Reads, winning the competition while championing Susan Ouriou's English translation of Catherine Leroux's novel The Future.
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Heather O'Neill has written a book of poetry entitled two eyes are you sleeping.