12 Facts About Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver was born on Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18,1957 and is an American author and journalist.

Lionel Shriver's father, Donald, was a Presbyterian minister who became an academic and president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York; her mother was a homemaker.

Lionel Shriver was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University.

Lionel Shriver has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok, Belfast, and London, and currently resides in Portugal.

Lionel Shriver has taught metalsmithing at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut.

In 2009, Lionel Shriver donated the short story "Long Time, No See" to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors.

Lionel Shriver has written for The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The New York Times, The Economist, Harper's Magazine, and other publications, plus the Radio Ulster program Talkback.

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.

Lionel Shriver currently writes for The Spectator, and occasionally contributes to the "Comment" page of The Times.

Lionel Shriver described herself as a "lifelong Democrat" in 2022 but holds some views that could be considered conservative.

In September 2022, Lionel Shriver released an open letter in which she endorsed Republican Ron DeSantis for the 2024 US Presidential election.

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.