Lionel Shriver was born on Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18,1957 and is an American author and journalist who lives in the United Kingdom.
12 Facts About Lionel Shriver
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Lionel Shriver's father, Donald, is a Presbyterian minister who became an academic and president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York; her mother was a homemaker.
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Lionel Shriver was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University.
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Lionel Shriver has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast, and currently resides in London.
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Lionel Shriver has taught metalsmithing at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut.
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Lionel Shriver said this about We Need To Talk About Kevin becoming a success:.
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The novel was "not science fiction", Lionel Shriver told BBC Radio 4's Front Row on May 9,2016.
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Lionel Shriver has written for The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Harper's, and other publications.
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In July 2005, Lionel Shriver began writing a column for The Guardian, in which she shared her opinions on maternal disposition within Western society, the pettiness of British government authorities, and the importance of libraries.
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Lionel Shriver occasionally contributes to the "Comment" page of The Times, standing in while regular columnist Matthew Parris is away.
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Lionel Shriver is a patron of UK population growth rate concern group Population Matters, and supported the UK's exit from the European Union.
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On June 7,2016, Lionel Shriver appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme My Teenage Diary, during which she read extracts from her journals from the late 1960s and early 1970s and discussed her upbringing and adolescence.