Jamie O'Neill was born on 1 January 1962 and is an Irish author.
11 Facts About Jamie O'Neill
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Jamie O'Neill's critically acclaimed novel, At Swim, Two Boys, earned him the highest advance ever paid for an Irish novel and frequent praise as the natural successor to James Joyce, Flann O'Brien and Samuel Beckett.
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Jamie O'Neill is currently living in Gortachalla in County Galway, having previously lived and worked in England for two decades.
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Terry Pender commented on At Swim, Two Boys: "With only this work Jamie O'Neill can take his rightful place among the great Irish writers beginning with Joyce and ending with Roddy Doyle".
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Jamie O'Neill was unhappy at home; he had a very difficult relationship with his father and ran away at age 17.
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Jamie O'Neill was one of the Irish delegates at the European Writers Conference in Istanbul in 2010.
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The British tabloid press, who had run multiple exposes about Harty during his fatal illness, approached Jamie O'Neill offering him money to sell his story.
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Harty's family had Jamie O'Neill, who had no legal standing in the estate, removed from the presenter's house; during this difficult period he eventually became homeless.
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Jamie O'Neill struggled to write, parted company with both his agent and publisher, and took a job as a night porter at the Cassel Hospital, a psychiatric institution in Richmond, London from 1990 to 2000.
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Jamie O'Neill was in a London pub when he noticed his dog was missing.
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The book allowed Jamie O'Neill to quit his job as a porter and to open his first bank account.