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Born May 18, 1957, Gastonia, North Carolina, USA - American journalist and writer.

She didn’t like the name she was given at birth and changed it at 15 from Margaret Ann to Lionel. she was a tomboy girl and believed that a man's name suited her better. Lionel was educated at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast and now lives in London.

In 2006 she was awarded the Orange Prize for her eighth published novel We Need to Talk About Kevin (known in Russia as The Price of Dislike). The book is a thriller about a split in maternal feelings, which may have played a decisive role in her son's murder of seven classmates. The book caused a lot of controversy and was a huge success only with the help of information transmitted by word of mouth.

Her ninth novel, The Post-Birthday World, was published in 2007 by HarperCollins. In July 2005, Shriver began writing a column for The Guardian, in which she shared her views on the nature of the mothers of Western society, the pettiness of the British government and the importance of libraries (she plans to transfer all her property to the Belfast library after her death, from which she borrowed books during their residence in Northern Ireland).

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