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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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- “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes…”Albert Einstein
- “We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella…”Beth Moore Jones
- “Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely…”Joseph F. Merrill
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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