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It just tripped over an issue that was just ripe for exploration and by some miracle found its audience.

Did I have some revelation or transforming event? The truth is that Kevin is of a piece with my other work. I'm often asked did something happen around the time I wrote Kevin. She said this about We Need To Talk About Kevin becoming a success: It provoked much controversy and achieved success through word of mouth. The novel is a 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. We Need to Talk About Kevin was awarded the 2005 Orange Prize. Rather than writing traditionally sympathetic characters, Shriver prefers to create characters who are "hard to love." In an interview with Bomb magazine, Shriver listed the various subjects of her novels up to the publication of We Need to Talk About Kevin: "anthropology and first love, rock-and-roll drumming and immigration, the Northern Irish Troubles, demography and epidemiology, inheritance, tennis and spousal competition, terrorism and cults of personality". Shriver had written eight novels, of which seven had been published, before she wrote We Need to Talk About Kevin, which she called her "make or break" novel due to the years of "professional disappointment" and "virtual obscurity" preceding it. She has taught metalsmithing at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp in New Milford, Connecticut. She has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast, and currently resides in London. Shriver was educated at Barnard College of Columbia University ( BA, MFA). At age 15, she changed her name from Margaret Ann to Lionel because she did not like the name she had been given and, as a tomboy, felt a conventionally male name was more appropriate.

Her father, Donald, is a Presbyterian minister who became an academic and president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York her mother was a homemaker. Shriver was born Margaret Ann Shriver, in Gastonia, North Carolina, to a religious family.

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