Claire Hennessy
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Claire Hennessy is the Irish author of several young adult novels. She was born in Dublin in 1986 and attended Trinity College Dublin, where she was elected a scholar[http://www.tcdlife.ie/scholars/scholar/about-list.php List of Scholars], tcdlife.ie and completed a BA in History and English Literature and master's degrees in Popular Literature and Creative Writing.
She teaches creative writing workshops and co-founded a creative writing school in Dublin.[http://www.clairehennessy.com/author.html Claire Hennessy: Author] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20050312234449/http://www.clairehennessy.com/author.html |date=2005-03-12 }}. Claire Hennessy. Retrieved on 10 August 2008. She also works as an editor and co-founded a literary journal in 2015.
Books
- Dear Diary... (2000)
- Being Her Sister (2001)
- Memories (2002)
- Stereotype (2003)
- Good Girls Don't (2004)
- Afterwards (2005)
- Girls on the Verge: the Claire Hennessy collection (2005)
- That Girl (2007)
- Big Picture (2008)
- Every Summer (2009)
- Seeds of Liberty (2014)
- Nothing Tastes as Good (2016)
- Like Other Girls (2017)
References
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External links
- [http://www.clairehennessy.com Claire Hennessy]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311144319/http://www.poolbeg.com/product.asp?P_ID=139 Books at Poolbeg Press website] (archived 2007)
- [http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/nothing-tastes-as-good-by-claire-hennessy-review-close-to-the-bone-1.2671971 Review in the Irish Times]
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Category:Irish children's writers
Category:Writers from Dublin (city)
Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin
Category:Irish writers of young adult literature
Category:Irish women children's writers
Category:Irish women novelists
Category:21st-century Irish novelists
Category:21st-century Irish women writers
Category:Women writers of young adult literature
Category:Irish LGBTQ novelists