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Shriver, Lionel

LC control no.n 86006080
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3569.H742
Personal name headingShriver, Lionel
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Variant(s)Shriver, Margaret Ann, 1957-
שרייבר, ליונל
LocatedLondon (England) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Birth date1957-05-18
Place of birthGastonia (N.C.)
Profession or occupationAuthors Journalists
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inThe female of the species, c1987: CIP t.p. (Lionel Shriver)
Checker and the derailleurs, 1989: t.p (Lionel Shriver) jkt. (n. N. Carolina; B.A., M.F.A., Columbia University; she lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland)
The Mandibles, a family, 2029-2047, 2016: title page (Lionel Shriver) page 3 of jacket (Lionel Shriver is also the author of the novels Big Brother, The New Republic, the National Book Award finalist So Much for That, the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday Worlds, and the Orange Prize winner We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives in London and Brooklyn, New York)
Wikipedia, October 4, 2016 (Lionel Shriver; Lionel Shriver (born May 18, 1957) is an American journalist and author who is resident in the United Kingdom; she is best known for her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005 and was adapted into the 2011 film of the same name, starring Tilda Swinton; Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver in Gastonia, North Carolina; at age 15, she informally changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the name she had been given, and as a tomboy felt that a conventionally male name fit her better; Shriver was educated at Barnard College, Columbia University (BA, MFA); she has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast, and currently lives in London; she is married to jazz drummer Jeff Williams; she also taught metalsmithing at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut)
Associated languageeng