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Margot Livesey was born on 23 July, 1953 in Scotland, United Kingdom, is a Scottish-born writer. Discover Margot Livesey's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Novelist, writer
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 23 July, 1953
Birthday 23 July
Birthplace Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1950

Livesey set her Novel in 1950s and 60s Scotland, and much of it echoes the story of Brontë's Novel.

Gemma, an orphan, is shunted off to do menial work at a school.

Not long after she turns 18, she moves to the Orkney Islands to work as a governess and meets a wealthy man, Hugh Sinclair.

The two seem to be moving toward marriage until Gemma learns a secret that causes her to feel betrayed.

Livesey does not, however, follow Jane Eyre in every respect.

In a notable departure from the original, Gemma's father is Icelandic.

Her que st to discover her heritage is a crucial part of the narrative.

1953

Margot Livesey (born 1953) is a Scottish-born writer.

She is the author of nine novels, a collection of short stories, a collection of essays on writing and the co-author, with Lynn Klamkin, of a textbook.

Among other awards, she has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN New England Award, and the Massachusetts Book Award.

Livesey's stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and a number of literary quarterlies.

She was formerly the fiction editor at Ploughshares, an American literary journal.

1976

Her first fiction publication was a short story, "Someone Else's," in Prism International in 1976.

1983

In 1983, Livesey joined the faculty at Tufts University and in 1986 published her first book, a collection of stories, which included nine short stories, and a novella, "Learning By Heart," which gave the volume its title.

1990

Her first Novel, Homework, appeared in 1990.

The story of an Edinburgh book editor who enters a relationship with the father of a disturbed child, the Novel was short listed for the W.H. Smith first Novel in Canada award.

1996

Livesey has followed Homework with seven other novels to date, beginning with Criminals (1996), about a banker who finds an abandoned infant in a bus station restroom and ends up leaving the baby with his sister.

2000

Four years later (in 2000), she published The Missing World, about a woman who loses her memory of the last three years and whose duplicitous former boyfriend exploits that loss to resume their relationship.

2001

The Missing World was followed a year later by Eva Moves the Furniture (2001), a Novel that took Livesey twelve years to write, in part because it drew more closely on her own life than her previous works.

She based the Novel's eponymous protagonist on stories she had heard about her mother, Eva McEwen, and especially about her relationship with the supernatural.

Like the real Eva, the fictional Eva loses her mother in childbirth.

The loss brings her two unexpected companions: the spirits of a young girl and an older woman, who follow Eva through her life, influencing it, sometimes rearranging the furniture, and sometimes causing trouble.

2004

Banishing Verona, Livesey's fourth Novel, appeared in 2004.

Told from alternating points of view, the Novel centers on two characters—Zeke, a twenty-something house painter with Asperger's and Verona, a radio host in her late 30s.

The two meet in the Novel's opening pages, when Verona, single and seven months pregnant, shows up at the house where Zeke is working, claiming to be related to its owners who have left town.

When Zeke returns the next morning, he discovers that Verona is gone; the two spend the rest of the Novel trying to reconnect.

2008

In 2008, Livesey published The House on Fortune Street, a Novel constructed of four interwoven narratives: two centered on women, Abigail, an actress who owns the titular house, and Dara, a therapist who rents the downstairs apartment, and two on men: Abigail's academic boyfriend, Sean, who is working on his dissertation about John Keats, and Dara's estranged father, Cameron, a photographer who struggles with his feelings for young girls.

Each character's section possesses what Livesey calls a "literary godparent," a writer whose work in some way influences the character's life: For Sean, it's Keats; for Abigail, it's Charles Dickens; for Dara it's Charlotte Brontë, and for Cameron, it's Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll).

2012

Livesey served as a judge for the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction in 2012.

She currently divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Iowa City, Iowa, where she is a member of the faculty at the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

She has also taught at Boston University, Bowdoin College, Brandeis University, Carnegie Mellon University, Cleveland State University, Emerson College, Tufts University, the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and Williams College.

She has frequently been a faculty member at the Bread Loaf and Sewanee writers’ conferences, among other conferences.

Livesey was raised on the grounds of what was then a Scottish private boys' school, Glenalmond College, approximately 50 miles north of Edinburgh.

Her father, John Kenneth Livesey, was a teacher at the school, while her mother, Eva Barbara (McEwen) Livesey, was a nurse.

Her mother died when Livesey was two years old and her father remarried.

After earning a Bachelors of Arts at the University of York, where she read philosophy and English, Livesey began to spend time in Toronto where she waitressed to support herself as she pursued writing fiction.

Livesey's next Novel, The Flight of Gemma Hardy (2012), again connects its main character to a literary figure, as Livesey set out to write a reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, a Novel that had influenced her since she encountered it as a young girl.

2016

Livesey followed The Flight of Gemma Hardy with Mercury (2016), a Novel about a couple struggling in a strained marriage.

The first section is narrated by Donald, a Scotsman who has immigrated to the United States where he lives in Boston and works as an optometrist.

Although his profession is to help others see more clearly, Donald struggles to see even some of the most obvious truths about his life.