Signing session – Douglas Kennedy

Douglas Kennedy was born in Manhattan and moved to Dublin in 1977, where he founded a theatre company and later ran The Abbey Theatre’s studio theatre. He began writing plays at night, with his first play aired by BBC Radio in 1980. After leaving the theatre in 1983, he became a full-time writer. His second novel, The Big Picture, became a bestseller and was adapted into a film. His subsequent nineteen novels include such notable successes such as The Pursuit of Happiness, Leaving the World, The Moment, The Great Wide Open, and Flyover. A masterful storyteller, Kennedy’s fiction explores the anxieties of modern life, the complexities of family and homeland, and how we are the architects of our own cul-de-sacs. He is a writer who brilliantly chronicles the way we live today