Which novelist whose original first names were Margaret Ann before she changed them, won the 2005 Orange Prize for the book 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'?
"Carol Topolski Carol Topolski (born 1949) is a British novelist. Before becoming a full-time writer she was a practising psychoanalytic psychologist and she drew on her experiences in writing her first novel, ""Monster Love"" which was published in 2008. According to ""The Guardian"" it 'shocked and impressed in equal measure' and has been compared to Lionel Shriver's ""We Need to Talk About Kevin"". Her second novel ""Do No Harm"" was published in 2010. Born in 1949, her mother was a child psychologist, her father was scientist and author Kit Pedler. She studied English at Sussex University and is a graduate"
"In an interview in ""Bomb"" magazine, Shriver listed her novels' subject matter up to the publication of ""We Need to Talk About Kevin"" as ""anthropology and first love, rock-and-roll drumming and immigration, the Northern Irish Troubles, demography and epidemiology, inheritance, tennis and spousal competition, [and] terrorism and cults of personality"". Rather than writing traditionally sympathetic characters, Shriver prefers to create characters who are ""hard to love."" ""We Need to Talk About Kevin"" was awarded the 2005 Orange Prize. The novel is a close study of maternal ambivalence, and the role it might have played in the title character's decision to"
"murder nine people at his high school. It provoked much controversy and achieved success through word of mouth. She said this about ""We Need To Talk About Kevin"" becoming a success: I'm often asked did something happen around the time I wrote ""Kevin"". Did I have some revelation or transforming event? The truth is that ""Kevin"" is of a piece with my other work. There's nothing special about ""Kevin"". The other books are good too. It just tripped over an issue that was just ripe for exploration and by some miracle found its audience. In 2009, she donated the short"
"Margaret Potter Margaret Potter, née Margaret Newman (born 21 June 1926 in Harrow, Middlesex, London, England – d.26 August 1998 in Oxford, England) was a British writer of over 55 Romance, mysteryand children's novels and family sagas, as well as many short stories. She wrote under her maiden and married names, and also under the pseudonyms of Anne Betteridge and Anne Melville. In 1967, her novel ""The Truth Game"" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She was the daughter of Bernard Newman and wife of Jeremy Potter, both also published writers. Born Margaret"
"a middle-aged woman who meets Velvet, a young adolescent, through The Fresh Air Fund. Other characters whose perspectives are featured include Paul (Ginger's husband), Silvia (Velvet's mother), Dante (Velvet's younger brother), and Beverly (a horse trainer). Gaitskill's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for ""Because They Wanted To"" in 1998. ""Veronica"" (2005) was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist for that year. The book is centered on the narrator, a former fashion model and her friend Veronica who contracts AIDS. Gaitskill mentioned working on the novel"
"in 2005 for Drowning Anna. Her novel ""Blue"" was nominated for the Carnegie Medal and sold over 15,000 copies. Sue Mayfield Sue Mayfield was born in 1963 in England. She is a writer of fiction for children and young adults. Many of her works are about young people overcoming difficulties and the themes that are in her works are loss, friendship, and forgiveness. Previously a teacher, Mayfield has been regularly visiting several schools since 1990 to read her works and lead writing workshops and has also taught creative writing to adults. She facilitates others peoples' writing in healthcare settings and"
"on March 27, 2005. Written and directed by Richard Friedenberg, it starred Christina Applegate as Suzanne, Johnathon Schaech as Matt Harrison, and Kathleen Rose Perkins as Katie. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas is a 2001 novel by James Patterson that argues the importance of balance within one's life. Two interwoven stories are told throughout the novel. The framing story is based on Katie Wilkinson, a New York City book editor, whose relationship with poet Matthew Harrison ends suddenly. During this period, Katie learns about Matt's past through the diary written by Suzanne. ""Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas"" marks"
"Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect. Married with Mike Pemberton, she has five adult children and lives in Whitstable, Kent, with her husband, and two small dogs. Pemberton was the fifteenth Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association from 1989 to 1991 and also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee. A Season of Secrets (2015) Beneath the Cypress Tree (2017) Novels Novels Margaret Pemberton Margaret Pemberton, née ""Hudson"" (born 10 April 1943), is a British writer of women's fiction since 1975. Beside her married name Margaret Pemberton, her writings have been published under her maiden name"
"featuring the romance author Patience McKenna. Haddam was nominated for an Edgar Award in the ""Best First Mystery Novel by an American Author"" category for her novel ""Sweet, Savage Death"" in 1985. Her novel ""Not a Creature Was Stirring"" also received an Edgar nomination, this time for ""Best Paperback Original""; it was also nominated for the 1991 Anthony Award in the same category. Jane Haddam Orania Papazoglou (born July 13, 1951), better known by her pen name Jane Haddam, is an American mystery writer. Haddam was born in Bethel, Connecticut and now lives in Watertown. She was married to mystery"
"Fiction in 2005. Her writing has appeared in ""The New York Times"", ""The Chicago Tribune"", ""The Daily Beast"", ""The Antioch Review"", ""New York Stories"", ""The Recorder"", ""The Baltimore Review"", and elsewhere. Keane lives outside New York City with her husband and their two sons. Mary Beth Keane Mary Beth Keane (born 1977) is an American writer of Irish parentage. She is the author of ""The Walking People"" and ""Fever"". In 2011 she was named one of the National Book Foundation's ""5 under 35,"" and in 2015 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction. Born in the Bronx, New York"
"a novel following the disintegration of an American family, which became a best-seller after being selected by Oprah's Book Club in 2001. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Oates wrote several books, mostly suspense novels, under the pen names Rosamond Smith and Lauren Kelly. For more than 25 years, Oates has been rumored to be a favorite to win the Nobel Prize in Literature by oddsmakers and critics. Her papers, held at Syracuse University, include 17 unpublished short stories and four unpublished or unfinished novellas. Oates has said that most of her early unpublished work was ""cheerfully thrown away"". One"
"She moved back to her home town of Chichester in 1998 when she became the first female executive director of Chichester Festival Theatre. Kate Mosse Katharine Louise Mosse (born 20 October 1961), or Kate Mosse, is an English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel ""Labyrinth"", which has been translated into more than 37 languages. Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor. Their aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was"
"the ""Hallmark Hall of Fame"", and ""Beach Girls"" for a Summer 2005 mini-series on Lifetime. Rice contributed a monologue to Motherhood Out Loud a play that premiered at Hartford Stage Company and was performed Off-Broadway and at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Rice divides her time between New York City, Old Lyme, Connecticut, and Southern California. Luanne Rice Luanne Rice is an American novelist. Her 32 novels that have been translated into 24 languages. She often writes about nature and the sea, and many of her novels deal with love and family. She is the author of ""The Lemon"
"Theresa Burke Theresa Frances Veronica Burke (born Amy Lauren Gardner on May 11, 1956) is a Canadian writer, journalist and producer for the CBC's television newsmagazine, ""The Fifth Estate"". She was born in Toronto. On May 20, 1999, Burke was on the telephone with bank robber Ty Conn, an escapee from the Kingston Penitentiary (one of Canada's most secure prisons) when he shot himself as the police were attempting his re-arrest. She co-authored ""Who Killed Ty Conn"" (2001) with Linden MacIntyre. She won a Canadian Association of Journalists award in 2000 for her work on ""His Word Against History"", a"
"Mayer, four-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Rick Atkinson, statistical analyst and ""FiveThirtyEight"" founder and creator Nate Silver, and CBS News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis. In literature, author of the New York Times bestseller ""Before I Fall"" Lauren Oliver, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Philip Roth, Canadian-born Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature winning writer Saul Bellow, political philosopher, literary critic and author of the New York Times bestseller ""The Closing of the American Mind"" Allan Bloom, author of ""The Big Country"" and Matt Helm spy novels Donald Hamilton, ""The Good War"" author Studs Terkel, writer, essayist, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist Susan"
"Workshop, and has served on the Motherboard of the James Tiptree Jr. Award for twenty years. Ellen Klages Ellen Klages (born 1954) is an American science, science fiction and historical fiction writer who lives in San Francisco. Her novelette ""Basement Magic"" won the 2005 Nebula Award for Best Novelette. She had previously been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell awards. Her first (non-genre) novel, ""The Green Glass Sea"", was published by Viking Children's Books in 2006. It won the 2007 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction. ""Portable Childhoods"", a collection of her short fiction published by Tachyon Publications, was named"
"Selling the Romance Novel. She lives with her husband in Corpus Christi, Texas. Ann Major Margaret Major Cleaves (born February 13, 1946 in Texas, United States) is popular writer of over 45 romance novels since 1980 as her real name and under the pseudonym Ann Major. She is a founding member of the Romance Writers of America and the co-author of the article ""The Contemporary Light Romance"" which has been collected in the book Writing and Selling the Romance Novel. Margaret Major was born February 13, 1946 in Texas, United States. Major attended Del Mar College, the University of the"
"Britain's prestigious Orange Prize. Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old girl, the book chronicles a child's murder in a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C. against the backdrop of the unfolding Watergate scandal. ""A Perfect Arrangement"" tells of the complex and increasingly disturbing relationship between a normal suburban family and their exceptionally perfect nanny. ""The Ghost at the Table"" explores the dramatic territory between two sisters' differing versions of their shared history. Suzanne Berne Suzanne Berne (born 1961 Washington, D.C.) is an American novelist known for her foreboding character studies involving unexpected domestic and psychological drama in bucolic suburban settings."
"currently published by Berkley, a division of Penguin Random House Books. Karen White Karen White is a New York Times bestselling American author of more than twenty-five novels. White was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and during her childhood lived in numerous states and also in Venezuela and London, England, where she graduated from The American School in London. She attended college at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she obtained a Bachelor of Science in Management. Her first book, ""In the Shadow of the Moon"" was a double finalist for the Romance Writers of America RITA Award. ""The Girl"
"Kate Mosse Katharine Louise Mosse (born 20 October 1961), or Kate Mosse, is an English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel ""Labyrinth"", which has been translated into more than 37 languages. Mosse was born in Chichester, and raised in Fishbourne, West Sussex, the eldest of three sisters born to a solicitor. Their aunt was involved in the campaign for the ordination of women and her grandfather was a vicar. She was educated at Chichester High School For Girls and New College, Oxford and graduated in 1984 with a BA (Hons)"
"Novel Cure"" with fellow therapist Ella Berthoud which will prescribe novels to read to aid in various ailments. Susan Elderkin Susan Elderkin (born 1968 in Crawley) is an English author of two critically acclaimed novels, her first, ""Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains"" won a Betty Trask Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, her second, ""The Voices"" was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She was one of Granta Magazine's 20 Best Young British Novelists in 2003 and won the 2007 Society of Authors Travel Award. Elderkin grew up in"
"Southern California since 2005. The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English Marianne Wiggins Marianne Wiggins (born September 8, 1947) is an American author. She is noted for the unusual characters and storylines in her novels. According to ""The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English,"" Wiggins writes with ""a bold intelligence and an ear for hidden comedy."" She has won a Whiting Award, an NEA award and the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2004 for her novel ""Evidence of Things Unseen"" Wiggins was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her family"
"Kelly lives in Enniskerry, County Wicklow with her family and three dogs. Cathy Kelly Cathy Kelly (born 12 September 1966) is an Irish former journalist and writer of women's fiction since 1997. She has gained international recognition with her popular fiction novels, which are published globally in many languages. In 2001, her novel ""Someone Like You"" won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Kelly is one of the most successful female authors to come out of Ireland since Maeve Binchy, having once outsold both Dan Brown and J. K. Rowling in the UK. Born"
"Katherine Paterson Katherine Womeldorf Paterson (born October 31, 1932) is a Chinese-born American writer best known for children's novels. For four different books published 1975-1980, she won two Newbery Medals and two National Book Awards. She is one of three people to win the two major international awards; for ""lasting contribution to children's literature"" she won the biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing in 1998 and for her career contribution to ""children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense"" she won the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council in 2006, the biggest monetary prize in"
"won PEN and other literary awards, including the Booker Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for writers of African descent, the Stonewall Award for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender fiction, and the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for the best young emerging voices. Four authors were included in the New Yorker's ""20 under 40"" list of young fiction writers. Riverhead Books Riverhead Books is a division of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1993 by Susan Petersen Kennedy. Writers published by Riverhead include Cass Browne, Marlon James, Junot Díaz, George Saunders, Khaled Hosseini, Nick Hornby, Anne Lamott, Patricia Lockwood, Sarah Vowell,"
"Anne Frasier Anne Frasier (born c. 1950s) is a pseudonym for Theresa Weir. Anne Frasier (a.k.a. Theresa Weir) is a ""New York Times"" and ""USA Today"" bestselling author of twenty-five books and numerous short stories that have spanned the genres of suspense, mystery, thriller, romantic suspense, paranormal, fantasy, and memoir. During her award-winning career, she's written for Penguin Putnam, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins Publishers, Bantam Books/Random House, Silhouette Books, Grand Central Publishing/Hachette, and Thomas & Mercer. Her titles have been printed in both hardcover and paperback and translated into twenty languages. Her memoir, THE ORCHARD, was a 2011 Oprah Magazine"
"Anne Michaels Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas. She is the recipient of honorary degrees, the Guggenheim Fellowship and many other honours. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award, the Griffin Poetry Prize, twice shortlisted for the Giller Prize and twice long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. Michaels is the current"
"novel ""Who Killed Angelique?"" won the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel. In 2003, the next novel, ""Who Killed Bianca"", was a finalist for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Wendy (born 28 November 1940) has an Honours degree in Latin and worked as a high school English teacher. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere. Frank Brennan was a businessman. He died in 1995. Frank Brennan and Wendy married, and she left her job. The marriage had three sons. They are voracious readers, and they decided to write their own novels under"
"with either woman due to deeply buried conflicts relating to Helen's past and her father's sudden death when she was a child. As the three women meet again they are forced to overcome these struggles for Declan's sake. The novel follows the painful journey they must take in order to correct the misunderstanding that exists between them. The novel was made into a film and aired on CBS as a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. Angela Lansbury received an Emmy nomination for it in 2004. It also stars Gina McKee, Sam Robards, Dianne Wiest, and Keith McErlean; and was directed"
"each other in the ordinary cause of things.'"" In November 2015, ""The New York Review of Books"" published a two-part conversation between Obama and Robinson, covering topics in American history and the role of faith in society. Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Summers Robinson (born 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. During her writing career Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the 2012 National Humanities Medal, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016 Robinson was named in ""Time"" magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at"
"regular radio guest. She lives in Milton Keynes with her husband, Kevin, who she regularly refers to as 'Lovely Kev. Carole Matthews Carole Matthews is a successful and popular British author, famous for her sense of humour and her romantic comedy novels. Her books have sold over 5.8 million books worldwide and have been published in more than 31 countries. In 2011, Matthews was inducted into the Festival of Romance Hall of Fame for her outstanding contribution to romance writing. Mathews was born in St Helens, Merseyside in 1960 and was always an avid reader. She attended Champneys College where"
"Ann Patchett Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963) is an American author. She received the 2002 PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize for Fiction in the same year, for her novel ""Bel Canto"". Patchett's other novels include ""The Patron Saint of Liars"" (1992), ""Taft"" (1994), ""The Magician's Assistant"" (1997), ""Run"" (2007), ""State of Wonder"" (2011), and ""Commonwealth"" (2016). Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. She was the younger of two daughters of Frank Patchett, a Los Angeles police captain and Jeanne Ray, a nurse (who later became a novelist). The couple divorced and her mother remarried, moving the family"
"was the inspiration for, and first recipient of, the ""Romantic Times"" Jane Austen Award, created to ""honor those in the romance community who have significantly impacted our genre"". Jayne Ann Krentz Jayne Ann Krentz, née Jayne Castle (born March 28, 1948 in Cobb, California, United States), is an American writer of romance novels. Krentz is the author of a string of ""New York Times"" bestsellers under seven different pseudonyms. Now, she only uses three names. Under her married name she writes contemporary romantic-suspense. She uses Amanda Quick for her novels of historical romantic-suspense. She uses her maiden name for futuristic/paranormal"