Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver is an American author, journalist and cultural commentator, born Margaret Ann Shriver on May 18, 1957. Her best-known novel is We Need to Talk About Kevin, a psychological thriller told in letters from a mother to her estranged husband after their son commits a school massacre, and it won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. She has also written the satirical novel Property and The Post-Birthday World, which leans toward romance.