Margot Livesey grew up in the Scottish Highlands and received a B.A. in English and Philosophy at the University of York in England. Her first book, a collection of stories called Learning By Heart, was published by Penguin Canada in 1986. Since then Margot has published six novels: Homework, Criminals, The Missing World, Eva Moves the Furniture, Banishing Verona and The House on Fortune Street.
Margot has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Tufts University, and a number of prestigious writing programs around the world. She lives with her husband, a painter, in Cambridge, MA.
Author Alice Sebold says, "Every novel of Margot Livesey's is, for her readers, a joyous discovery. Her work radiates with compassion and intelligence and always, deliciously, a mystery."
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 
