![]() While working on her master’s degree, Rooney spent three months completing a draft of the novel Conversations with Friends. ![]() (“Absolute trash,” she says today.) Later, she was accepted to study English literature at Trinity College in Dublin, where she also became a member of the debate team. Her anti-authoritarian streak meant she didn’t enjoy school, but she applied herself in other ways: By age 15, she’d written her first book. She grew up in the town of Castlebar, the daughter of a telecom worker and an arts center administrator. ![]() Rooney is known for writing characters whose lives are similar to her own. A keen observer of human relationships, Irish novelist Sally Rooney is a virtuoso at bringing modern intimacy to the page. ![]()
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