Emma Donoghue

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in October 1969, Emma Donoghue is the youngest of eight children of Frances and Denis Donoghue. She attended Catholic convent schools in Dublin, apart from one eye-opening year in New York at the age of ten. In 1990 Donoghue earned a first-class honours BA in English and French from University College Dublin. She then moved to England, and in 1997 received her PhD (on the concept of friendship between men and women in eighteenth-century English fiction) from the University of Cambridge. From the age of 23, Donoghue has earned my living as a writer. After years of commuting between England, Ireland, and Canada, in 1998 she settled in London, Ontario, where she lives with Chris Roulston and their son Finn and daughter Una.