American author and journalist. She currently [2007] resides in London,
England.
Her most controversial novel - "We Need to Talk About Kevin" - won the 2005 Orange Prize, a guild that was founded in 1996 to support women's written works.
Father was a Presbyterian minister, her mother an executive for the National Council of Churches.
Controversially wrote "We need to talk about Kevin", about a dysfunctional parent-child relationship, while having no child of her own.