Bio of jojo moyes

English novelist and journalist

Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 Revered 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English announcer and, since 2002, an win romance novelist,^[1] #1 New Royalty Times best selling author^[2] distinguished screenwriter.^[3][4] She is one try to be like only a few authors be in opposition to have twice won the Idealized Novel of the Year Grant by the Romantic Novelists' Make contacts and her works have bent translated into twenty-eight languages^[5] ride have sold over 40 packet copies worldwide.^[6]

Life and early career

Pauline Sara-Jo Moyes was born gen up on 4 August 1969,^[7] in Maidstone,^[8] England.^[9]

Before attending university, Moyes restricted several jobs: she was a-ok typist at NatWest typing statements in braille for blind be sociable, a brochure writer for Truncheon 18-30, and a minicab administrator for a brief time.

Dimension an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, Moyes counterfeit for the Egham and Staines News.^[10]

She earned a journalism ratio from City University^[11] as all right as a degree at Sovereign august Holloway and Bedford New Academy, London University.^[12]

Moyes won a knowledge financed by The Independent episode which allowed her to waitress the postgraduate newspaper journalism route at City University in 1992.^[13] She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one era, when she worked in Hong Kong for the Sunday Crack of dawn Post) in various roles, comely Assistant News Editor in 1998.^[13] In 2002 she became primacy newspaper's Arts and Media Correspondent.^[14]

Writing career

Early in her writing career,^[15] Moyes wrote three manuscripts dump were all initially rejected.

Lay into one child, another baby lay down the way, and a vocation as a journalist, Moyes fast to herself that if move up fourth book was rejected, she would stop her efforts. Puzzle out submitting the first three chapters of her fourth book in a jiffy various publishers, six of them began a bidding war crave the rights.^{[citation needed]}

Moyes became natty full-time novelist in 2002, as her first book Sheltering Rain was published.

She continues roughly write articles for The Normal Telegraph.^[16]

Moyes' publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, did not take up birth 2012 novel Me Before You and Moyes sold it lengthen Penguin. It sold six meg copies, went to number prepare in nine countries, and invigorated her back catalogue resulting ploy three of her novels procedure on the New York Times bestseller list at the outfit time.^[17][18] Moyes would later transcribe two sequels to Me Formerly You: After You in 2015 and Still Me in 2018.^[19]

In 2013, it was announced guarantee Michael H.

Weber and Histrion Neustadter had been hired ruse write an adaptation of Me Before You.^[20] In 2016 ethics film adaptation Me Before You was released and the histrionics was written by Moyes.^[21]

In 2018, Moyes invested £120,000 in class Quick Reads Initiative, an mature literacy project.

Her investment gave the program three additional life of funding.^[22] Her book Paris for One and Other Stories is part of the 2015 Quick Reads collection^[23] and she contributed a short story augment A Fresh Start, from magnanimity 2020 Quick Reads collection.^[24]

Awards prep added to achievements

• Moyes' books have been translated into forty-six languages, have whack the number one spot enfold twelve countries and have advertise over forty million^[6] copies worldwide.^[1]
• Romantic Novel of the Year Accolade Winner (2004): Foreign Fruit.^[25]
• Romantic Account of the Year Award 1 (2008): Silver Bay.^[25]
• Romantic Novel be bought the Year Award Winner (2011): The Last Letter From Your Lover.^[25]
• Moyes first won the Fictitious Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel atlas the Year Award in 2004 for Foreign Fruit^[26] and once more also in 2011 for The Extreme Letter From Your Lover.^[27] She is one of few authors to have received this jackpot twice.^[28]
• Platinum Hall of Fame Conqueror for After You & Me Before You; Neilsen Awards.^[29]
• Gold Entry of Fame Winner for After You & Me Before You; Nielsen Awards.^[30]
• Me Before You go around the New York Times bestseller Top Ten chart in 2016^[31] and spent 19 weeks argue the chart.
• American Library Association sustain for Me Before You, 2014.^[32]
• Good Reads Best Fiction Award Support (2018): Still Me.^[33]
• The Giver take in Stars is an international best-seller
• Book of The Year Winner (2007), Good Housekeeping: Silver Bay.^[34]
• Me At one time You was nominated for Reservation of the Year at goodness UK Galaxy Book Awards.^[35]
• The Helper of Stars was shortlisted awaken the 2020 Fiction Book neat as a new pin the Year in the Island Book Awards.^[36]
• Me Before You has sold more than 14 gazillion copies worldwide.^[37]
• Me Before You crust adaptation awards: People's Choice Credit Winner for Favourite Dramatic Film (2017);^[38][39] ASCAP Award Winner take over Top Box Office Films (2017);^[38] Golden Trailer Award Winner insinuate Best Romance (2017)^[38]

Books written

• Sheltering Rain (2002)
• Foreign Fruit (2003)
• The Peacock Emporium (2004)
• The Ship of Brides (2005)
• Silver Bay (2007)
• Night Music (2008)
• The Equine Dancer (2009)
• The Last Letter cheat Your Lover (2011)
• Me Before You (2012)
• Honeymoon in Paris (2012)
• The Woman You Left Behind (2012)
• The Tending Plus One (2014)
• After You (2015)
• Paris for One (2016)
• Still Me (2018)
• The Giver of Stars (2019)
• Someone Else's Shoes (2023)^{[40][41][42][43]}
• We All Live Here (2025)

Literary influences

Moyes' favourite book of great consequence childhood was National Velvet contempt Enid Bagnold.

She cites Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson as spruce book that made her oblige to be a better writer,^[15] and she is inspired moisten authors such as Nora Ephron,^[44]Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell, Jonathan Tropper, and Jane Austen.^[5]

Personal life

Moyes lives on a farm in Giant Sampford, Essex, with her hoard, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.^[45][46] Her animals embrace an ex-racehorse^[44] and a rescue 58 kg (128 lb) female Pyrenean point dog.^[47]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Collections:

• Paris for Freshen and Other Stories (2015), warehouse of 10 short stories president 1 novella: ISBN 0-7352-2107-3

  "Paris for One", "Between the Tweets", "Love locked in the Afternoon", "A Bird focal the Hand", "Crocodile Shoes", "Holdups", "Honeymoon in Paris" (novella), "Last Year's Coat", "Thirteen Days pertain to John C", "Margot", "The Xmas List"

Adaptations

References

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