Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes (born 4 August 1969 in London, England) is an English journalist and, since 2002, a romance novelist. 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. 2Biography 3Life 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. 3Writing 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 Pengui