Talk:Lionel Shriver

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[edit] Shriver?

Is she related to the Shrivers of Massachusetts? 69.221.6.4 01:09, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comment moved from article page

The following was added to the article by Shrionel on 8 January 2007, and was then moved from the article page to here (by CarolGray), pending being merged into the article:

Changed her name from Margaret Ann TO LIONEL because she liked the sound of it. [As written, she liked the sound of Margaret Ann.)

Re: columns, wrote about the "pettiness of BRITISH GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITIES" not about the pettiness of the British public

Delete "shared" inheritance--she has no "shared" inheritance; indeed, she has no inheritance, period. Better to say she wrote about the "importance of libraries", and perhaps to include parenthetically "(she plans to will whatever assets remain at her death to the Belfast Library Board, from whose libraries she checked out so many books when she lived in Northern Ireland)".

Married to jazz drummer JEFF Williams [not Geoff].

Thanks,

Lionel Shriver

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by CarolGray (talk • contribs) 15:28, 8 January 2007 (UTC).

I've now merged this material into the article. CarolGray 19:16, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

I wondered why noone has drawn the parallel between her book and "The Omen". If you take out religion and substitute Kevin for Damien the stories are almost identical. There's nothing wrong with that - The Omen is a great story.