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About Lionel Shriver
American author, journalist, and cultural commentator
Lionel Shriver is an American author, journalist, and cultural commentator. She is known for fiction and for her sharp public commentary, especially through her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin. Her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Beyond her fiction, she has worked as a journalist and as a commentator on cultural questions, which gives her writing a distinctly observant and argumentative edge.
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- “Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]”Lionel Shriver
- “My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me a…”Lionel Shriver
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- “Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”Stephen Fry
- “Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers…”Nicolas Cage
- “I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the…”Art Spiegelman
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Books by Lionel Shriver
We need to talk about Kevin
2003
Post-Birthday World
2007
Big Brother
2013
So much for that
2010
Double fault
1997