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Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver (born Margaret Ann Shriver; May 18, 1957) is an American-British author and journalist who lives in Portugal. Her novel We Need to Talk About Kevin won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005.

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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

—Lionel Shriver in Checker and the Derailleurs

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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

—Lionel Shriver in We Need to Talk About Kevin

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