- Born
- Birth nameMargaret Ann Shriver
- Lionel Shriver was born on May 18, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, USA. She is a writer, known for We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), The Book Quiz (2007) and The Brendan O'Neill Show (2018). She has been married to Jeff Williams since 2003.
- SpouseJeff Williams(2003 - present)
- American author and journalist. She currently [2007] resides in London, England.
- Her most controversial novel - "We Need to Talk About Kevin" - won the 2005 Orange Prize, a guild that was founded in 1996 to support women's written works.
- Father was a Presbyterian minister, her mother an executive for the National Council of Churches.
- Controversially wrote "We need to talk about Kevin", about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship, while having no child of her own.
- [In response to a Studio Audience Member asking what happens after the end of "We need to talk about Kevin"] That's your job. I did my job for over 400 pages.
- I don't remember who it was who said that "writers have to have a little piece of ice in their heart", and I suppose I do.
- If there were any justice there would be someone out there writing about me, but in my experience there's very little justice in this world.
- Well of course we're all confined by one thing or another. One of the things that confines me now is that I don't have children. So the experience of parenthood and of lineage of carrying on a lineage is closed off to me. So that is a confinement. We make our choices and we are trapped by them.
- [Identity Politics] The Movement pushes historically marginalized groups to deploy weakness as a weapon, thus you're strongly motivated to maintain that weakness.
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