Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver

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born
in Gastonia, North Carolina, The United States
May 18, 1957

gender
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Lionel Shriver's novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double Fault, A Perfectly Good Family, and Checker and the Derailleurs. Her novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. 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.

Author photo copyright Jerry Bauer, courtesy of Harper Collins.


Average rating: 3.89 · 57,413 ratings · 9,186 reviews · 15 distinct works · Similar authors
We Need to Talk About Kevin
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 44,116 ratings — published 2003 — 69 editions
The Post-Birthday World
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 6,872 ratings — published 2007 — 32 editions
So Much for That
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 3,260 ratings — published 2010 — 29 editions
Double Fault
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 873 ratings — published 1997 — 20 editions
A Perfectly Good Family
3.2 of 5 stars 3.20 avg rating — 677 ratings — published 2007 — 17 editions
The New Republic
2.88 of 5 stars 2.88 avg rating — 514 ratings — published 2012 — 23 editions
Game Control
3.22 of 5 stars 3.22 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1994 — 19 editions
The Female of the Species
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 190 ratings — published 1987 — 12 editions
Checker and the Derailleurs
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1989 — 12 editions
Big Brother
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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April 2012, Lionel Shriver
"This envelope-pushing writer covered school shootings in We Need to Talk About Kevin and now terrorism in The New Republic, a playful take on the rise of a rookie journalist." ...More

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“A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.”
Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

“...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

“I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.”
Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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