Jennifer Johnston
Jennifer Johnston was born in Dublin in 1930. Her first published novel was The Captains and the Kings. She has written a number of novels, including Shadows on our Skin, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and The Old Jest, which won the Whitbread Novel Award. She has also written plays, including The Nightingale and Not the Lark, and O Ananias, Azarias and Misael.
