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... > social science subjects > sociology > family studies > motherhood encyc > prominent mothers > Lionel Shriver
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Lionel Shriver  

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  • Lionel Shriver is the author of nine novels—The Female of the Species (1986), Checker and the Derailleurs (1987), The Bleeding Heart (1990), Ordinary Decent Criminals (1992), Game Control (1994), A Perfectly Good Family (1996), Double Fault (1997), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2003), and The Post-Birthday World (2007). She has received a number of prizes for her fiction, including the prestigious Orange Prize for female fiction writers in 2005 for We Need to Talk About Kevin, a controversial narrative about a mother who raises a mass murderer.Lionel was born Margaret Ann Shriver in May, 1957 in Gastonia, North Carolina, where her father was Presbyterian minister. [Source: Encyclopedia of Motherhood; Shriver, Lionel]

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