Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver (1957) is an American journalist and author. She studied at Columbia University in New York, then went on to live in Nairobi, Bangkok, Belfast and London. As a journalist, Schriver has written for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times and The Economist. In 2005, Shriver won the Orange Prize for her eighth book We Need to Talk About Kevin (Counterpoint Press, 2003), a psychological thriller about a boy who commits a bloody attack at his school. Her latest novel, The Motion of the Body Through Space (Harper Collins, 2020), told the story of Serenata Terpsichore, a fitness enthusiast who was forced to stop exercising due to a knee injury, just as her husband starts running marathons and triathlons.