Pen name Jojo Moyes Period 2002–present Education University of London Nationality British Role Journalist | Language English Name Jojo Moyes Occupation Journalist, novelist Genre Romance | |
Born Pauline Sara Jo Moyes
4 August 1969 (age 54)
London, England, UK ( 1969-08-04 ) Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Books Me Before You, After You, The One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, The Last Letter from Your Lover Similar People Fred Hoyle, Mervyn Peake, Erich Maria Remarque, Cecelia Ahern, Liane Moriarty Profiles | ||
Jojo moyes the girl you left behind
Jojo Moyes (born 4 August 1969 in London, England) is an English journalist and, since 2002, a romance novelist and screenwriter. She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and has been translated into eleven different languages.
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- Jojo moyes the girl you left behind
- Me before you ein ganzes halbes jahr book trailer jojo moyes
- Life and early career
- Writing career
- Private life
- References
Me before you ein ganzes halbes jahr book trailer jojo moyes
Life and early career
Pauline Sara-Jo Moyes was born on 4 August 1969 in Maidstone, England, the only child of Elizabeth J. McKee, an illustrator, and James C. Moyes, a sculptor. She studied at Royal Holloway, University of London whilst working for the Egham and Staines News.
In 1992, she won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University, London. She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one year, when she worked in Hong Kong for the Sunday Morning Post) in various roles, becoming Assistant News Editor in 1998. In 2002 she became the newspaper's Arts and Media Correspondent.
Writing career
Moyes became a full-time novelist in 2002, when her first book Sheltering Rain was published. She continues to write articles for The Daily Telegraph.
She first won the Romantic Novelists' Association's Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 2004 for Foreign Fruit and again in 2011 for The Last Letter From Your Lover
Moyes' publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, did not take up the book Me Before You and Moyes sold it to Penguin. It sold six million copies, went to number one in nine countries, and reinvigorated her back catalogue resulting in three of her novels being on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time.
In 2013, it was announced that Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter have been hired to write an adaptation of Moyes novel Me Before You.
In 2016 the film adaptation Me Before You was released and the screenplay was written by Moyes.
Private life
Moyes lives on a farm in Great Sampford, Essex with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.