| Anne-Marie Casey | |
| Pseudonym: | Anne-Marie Casey |
| Birth Date: | 7 July 1965 |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Nationality: | British, Irish |
| Spouse: | Joseph O'Connor |
| Children: | 2 |
Anne-Marie Casey (born 7 July 1965) is a TV screenwriter and producer who moved into stage adaptation and novels.
Casey was born in 1965 in the UK to an Irish father. She was educated at St Bernard's convent school before going to university at Oxford where she studied English and then Syracuse University, New York where she studied Film and TV. She became a producer and script editor. She married writer Joseph O'Connor with whom she had two sons and moved to Killiney, Co Dublin. There she began working on scripts for RTÉ. In 2011 she created the stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women. In 2014 she adapted Wuthering Heights.[1] [2] [3]
Casey's debut novel An Englishwoman in New York was published in the UK and Ireland in 2013.[4] The novel was published that same year in the US as No One Could Have Guessed the Weather.[5]
Her second novel The Real Liddy James was published in 2016. The novel's plot follows high-powered Irish-American lawyer Liddy James as she reassesses her priorities in life following a period of high stress. Part of the novel takes place in Ireland.[6]