Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes grew up in London, England and attended Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. After graduating, Moyes received a bursary for the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University, London. In 1992, Moyes began working for The Independent newspaper and eventually became the Assistant News Editor in 1998. In 2002, Moyes started her career as a full-time novelist with the publication of her book Sheltering Sky. Since then, Moyes has written 11 novels, and won the Romantic Novelist’s Award twice for her books The Last Letter from your Lover in 2011 and Foreign Fruit in 2004. Me Before You was also nominated for the Book of the Year at the UK Galaxy Book Awards. She now lives on a farm in Essex, England with her husband and their three children.