Nuala O Faolain, one of nine children of the journalist 'Terry O'Sullivan' grew up in north County Dublin. She got scholarships to University College Dublin and Oxford University and worked in cafes and shops and at teaching and proofreading, etcetera, before becoming a lecturer in the English Department of UCD in the 1960s. She taught adults there and in the Workers' College, and followed her interest in 'second chance' education to London, in the 1970s, where she made television programmes at the BBC for The Open University. In the 1980s she worked for RTE TV, producing 'The Women's Programme' and 'Plain Tales,' and for a year taught at what is now Dublin City University. She left broadcasting to write an opinion column and feature articles in The Irish Times. In 1996, an auobiographical introduction she wrote to a selection of her journalism, published as "Are You Somebody?" had a surprising success. She followed that book with a novel, 'My Dream of You', a second memoir, 'Almost There', and a biography, 'The Story of Chicago May.' At present she is writing for The Sunday Tribune about the US presidential election campaign, and working on a novel about marital infidelity. She lives in west Clare and frequently visits New York. For published works by this author click here