Morag Prunty
Morag Prunty | |
|---|---|
| Born | 14 April 1964 Scotland |
| Other names | Kate Kerrigan |
| Website | http://katekerriganauthor.blogspot.com/ |
Morag Prunty (born 14 April 1964), is a magazine editor and New York Times bestselling author who also writes as Kate Kerrigan.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Morag Prunty was born in Scotland, of Irish parents. She had three siblings. She grew up in London from the age of two. She left school at 15 and became a hairdresser. At nineteen she began working as a magazine writer. She worked in Looks where she was the youngest editor on a national British publication. She also worked in More and Just Seventeen.
In 1991 Prunty moved to Dublin to take over the relaunch of Irish Tatler.[3][4][5][6]
She lived in Dublin with her husband, Niall Kerrigan, with whom she has two sons. They bought a house in Killala, County Mayo. Prunty suffers with arthritis.[7][3][8][5]
Bibliography
[edit]- Boys: A User's Guide, illustrated by Alison Everitt, Piccadilly (London, England), 1993.
- Dancing with Mules, Pan (London, England), 2001, published as Wild Cats and Colleens, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
- Disco Daddy, Pan (London, England), 2002.
- Poison Arrows, Pan (London, England), 2003.
- Superstar Lovers, Tivoli (Dublin, Ireland), 2004.
- Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2006
Sources
[edit]- ^ "An Post Irish Book Awards » Kate Kerrigan".
- ^ "Kate Kerrigan On Writing". Writing.ie. 8 November 2010.
- ^ a b "Author". HarperCollins Canada.
- ^ "Morag Prunty - no one ever told me I was clever or good". independent.
- ^ a b "Morag Prunty". www.panmacmillan.com.
- ^ "There's Something About Morag". Irish America.
- ^ "Kate Kerrigan: A Radical Change In My Writing Habits". Writing.ie. 20 July 2015.
- ^ "Best selling author Kate Kerrigan selling historical Mayo home which played host to luminaries like Laurence Olivier and George Best". independent.
