Jojo Moyes Explained

Birth Date:1969 8, df=y
Birth Place:Maidstone, Kent, England
Language:English
Period:1993–present
Genre:Romance
Spouse:Charles (Maxwell) Arthur
Children:3

Pauline Sara Jo Moyes (born 4 August 1969), known professionally as Jojo Moyes, is an English journalist and, since 2002, an award-winning romance novelist,[1] #1 New York Times best selling author[2] and screenwriter.[3] [4] She is one of only a few authors to have twice won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association and her works have been translated into twenty-eight languages[5] and have sold over 40 million copies worldwide.[6]

Life and early career

Pauline Sara-Jo Moyes was born on 4 August 1969,[7] in Maidstone,[8] England.[9]

Before attending university, Moyes held several jobs: she was a typist at NatWest typing statements in braille for blind people, a brochure writer for Club 18-30, and a minicab controller for a brief time. While an undergraduate at Royal Holloway, University of London, Moyes worked for the Egham and Staines News.[10]

She earned a journalism degree from City University[11] as well as a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University.[12]

Moyes won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper which allowed her to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University in 1992.[13] She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one year, when she worked in Hong Kong for the Sunday Morning Post) in various roles, becoming Assistant News Editor in 1998.[13] In 2002 she became the newspaper's Arts and Media Correspondent.[14]

Writing career

Early in her writing career,[15] Moyes wrote three manuscripts that were all initially rejected. With one child, another baby on the way, and a career as a journalist, Moyes committed to herself that if her fourth book was rejected, she would stop her efforts. After submitting the first three chapters of her fourth book to various publishers, six of them began a bidding war for the rights.

Moyes became a full-time novelist in 2002, when her first book Sheltering Rain was published. She continues to write articles for The Daily Telegraph.[16]

Moyes' publisher, Hodder & Stoughton, did not take up the 2012 novel Me Before You and Moyes sold it to Penguin. It sold six million copies, went to number one in nine countries, and reinvigorated her back catalogue resulting in three of her novels being on the New York Times bestseller list at the same time.[17] [18] Moyes would later write two sequels to Me Before You: After You in 2015 and Still Me in 2018.[19]

In 2013, it was announced that Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter had been hired to write an adaptation of Me Before You.[20] In 2016 the film adaptation Me Before You was released and the screenplay was written by Moyes.[21]

In 2018, Moyes invested £120,000 in the Quick Reads Initiative, an adult literacy project. Her investment gave the program three additional years of funding.[22] Her book, Paris for One and Other Stories, is part of the 2015 Quick Reads collection,[23] and she contributed a short story to A Fresh Start, from the 2020 Quick Reads collection.[24]

Awards and achievements

Books written

Literary influences

Moyes' favourite book in childhood was National Velvet by Enid Bagnold. She cites Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson as a book that made her want to be a better writer, and she is inspired by authors such as Nora Ephron,[43] Marian Keyes, Lisa Jewell, Jonathan Tropper, and Jane Austen.

Personal life

Moyes lives on a farm in Great Sampford, Essex, with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.[44] [45] Her animals include an ex-racehorse[43] and a rescued 58kg (128lb) female Pyrenean mountain dog.[46]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

Collections:

"Paris for One", "Between the Tweets", "Love in the Afternoon", "A Bird in the Hand", "Crocodile Shoes", "Holdups", "Honeymoon in Paris" (novella), "Last Year's Coat", "Thirteen Days with John C", "Margot", "The Christmas List"

Adaptations

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Jojo . 2022-08-10 . JoJo Moyes . en.
  2. Web site: Jojo Moyes Penguin Random House . 2022-08-10 . PenguinRandomhouse.com . en-US.
  3. Web site: Jojo Moyes on Creating "Me Before You" From Book to Film . 2022-08-10 . womenandhollywood.com . en-US.
  4. Web site: Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . IMDb.
  5. News: jojo moyes red chat. 15 November 2017. en.
  6. Web site: Kroll . Justin . 2020-12-08 . Universal Taps Catalina Aguilar-Mastretta To Direct Adaptation Of Jojo Moyes Bestseller 'The Giver Of Stars' . 2022-08-10 . Deadline . en-US.
  7. Web site: Jojo Moyes: Biography. webbiography.com. 5 November 2015.
  8. Web site: Index entry. 28 February 2017. FreeBMD. ONS.
  9. Web site: Jojo Moyes. The Open Library.
  10. Web site: Jojo Moyes. The Telegraph. October 2015 .
  11. Web site: GradeSaver . Jojo Moyes Biography List of Works, Study Guides & Essays GradeSaver . 2022-08-10 . www.gradesaver.com . en.
  12. Web site: BookBrowse . Jojo Moyes author biography . 2022-08-10 . BookBrowse.com . en.
  13. Web site: Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . freshfiction.com.
  14. Web site: Jojo Moyes. jojomoyes.com. 5 November 2015.
  15. News: Interview with Jojo Moyes. 31 July 2013. Goodreads. 14 November 2017.
  16. Web site: Jojo Moyes. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002011255/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/jojo-moyes/. 2 October 2011. Telegraph.co.uk. 5 November 2015.
  17. Web site: Moyes interview. Irish Independent. October 2015 .
  18. News: Jojo Moyes: 'I'd like to be the Puccini of fiction'. Beckerman. Hannah. 21 September 2015. The Guardian. 14 November 2017. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  19. https://www.jojomoyes.com/books/still-me/ STILL ME by Jojo Moyes
  20. Web site: ME BEFORE YOU to Be Adapted by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. Collider. 23 October 2013 . 5 November 2015.
  21. Web site: Me Before You (film 2016). IMDB.
  22. Web site: 21 February 2020. Jojo Moyes About Backing the Quick Reads. 23 February 2020. Ikon London Magazine.
  23. Book: Moyes, J.. Paris for One. 2015-01-01. Penguin Books . 978-1-4059-1893-0 .
  24. Web site: A Fresh Start (Quick Reads) (Quick Reads) (Quick Reads 2020). 2021-07-24. www.goodreads.com.
  25. Web site: Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . www.fantasticfiction.com.
  26. Web site: Welcome – The Romantic Novelists' Association. rna-uk.org. 5 November 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20171115015228/http://www.rna-uk.org/index.php?page=book&id=7. 15 November 2017.
  27. Web site: Jojo Moyes. TheBookseller.com. 5 November 2015.
  28. News: 2011-03-09 . Jojo Moyes wins Romantic Novel of the Year . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-08-10.
  29. Web site: Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . Nielsen Awards . en-GB.
  30. Web site: Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . Nielsen Awards . en-GB.
  31. News: Best Sellers - June 26, 2016 - The New York Times. The New York Times . 13 December 2017.
  32. Web site: Me Before You Awards & Grants . 2022-08-10 . www.ala.org.
  33. Web site: Announcing the Goodreads Choice Winner in Best Fiction! . 2022-08-10 . Goodreads.
  34. Web site: 2014-04-14 . Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . Book Series in Order.
  35. Web site: 2018-09-01 . Book Review: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes . 2022-08-10 . Ethereal Jinxed . en.
  36. Web site: British Book Awards 2020: Books of the Year shortlists revealed The Bookseller. www.thebookseller.com. 2020-03-20.
  37. Web site: Finney . Joanne . 2020-08-13 . The 10 best Jojo Moyes books, rated by us . 2022-08-10 . Good Housekeeping . en-GB.
  38. Web site: 2017 People's Choice Awards . 2022-08-10 . www.warnerbros.com . en-US.
  39. News: Sturges . Fiona . 2023-05-05 . Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes audiobook review – a smart changing-places tale . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-06-26 . 0261-3077.
  40. Web site: Herald . TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER For the Telegraph . 2023-02-19 . Schlichenmeyer: 'Someone Else's Shoes' a breezy, relatable read . 2023-06-26 . TelegraphHerald.com . en.
  41. Web site: Jojo Moyes writes love stories. Her own recently took an unexpected turn. . washingtonpost.com.
  42. News: Heyman . Marshall . 2023-02-04 . She Grabs the Wrong Gym Bag, and Carries It Into a New Life . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-26 . 0362-4331.
  43. News: Jojo Moyes author interview. BookBrowse. BookBrowse.com. 15 November 2017.
  44. Web site: Curtis Brown. curtisbrown.co.uk. 5 November 2015.
  45. Web site: The Open Library.
  46. News: Moyes. Jojo. How a 58kg rescue dog changed my life. The Times. 25 January 2018. 25 January 2018.
  47. Review of The Peacock Emporium at Booklover Book Reviews
  48. News: Sturges . Fiona . 2023-05-05 . Someone Else's Shoes by Jojo Moyes audiobook review – a smart changing-places tale . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-06-26 . 0261-3077.
  49. Web site: Herald . TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER For the Telegraph . 2023-02-19 . Schlichenmeyer: 'Someone Else's Shoes' a breezy, relatable read . 2023-06-26 . TelegraphHerald.com . en.
  50. Web site: Jojo Moyes writes love stories. Her own recently took an unexpected turn. . washingtonpost.com.
  51. News: Heyman . Marshall . 2023-02-04 . She Grabs the Wrong Gym Bag, and Carries It Into a New Life . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-06-26 . 0362-4331.

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