Lionel Shriver
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Emerging from a religious family in Gastonia, North Carolina, she adopted the masculine name Lionel at fifteen and later completed a BA and MFA at Barnard College, while also teaching metalsmithing at a Connecticut arts camp. Her literary breakthrough arrived with We Need to Talk About Kevin, a novel that earned the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction and was turned into a 2011 film starring Tilda Swint…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources