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Morag Prunty

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Morag Prunty
Born14 April 1964
Scotland
Other namesKate Kerrigan
Websitehttp://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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ "An Post Irish Book Awards » Kate Kerrigan".
  2. ^ "Kate Kerrigan On Writing". Writing.ie. 8 November 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Author". HarperCollins Canada.
  4. ^ "Morag Prunty - no one ever told me I was clever or good". independent.
  5. ^ a b "Morag Prunty". www.panmacmillan.com.
  6. ^ "There's Something About Morag". Irish America.
  7. ^ "Kate Kerrigan: A Radical Change In My Writing Habits". Writing.ie. 20 July 2015.
  8. ^ "Best selling author Kate Kerrigan selling historical Mayo home which played host to luminaries like Laurence Olivier and George Best". independent.