Emma Donoghue is an award-winning Irish-Canadian novelist, playwright, and screenwriter best known for her international bestseller Room (2010), which she adapted into the Oscar-nominated 2015 film. Born in Dublin in 1969, she studied English and French at University College Dublin and earned a PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her wide-ranging work includes historical fiction such as The Wonder, Slammerkin, Learned by Heart, and The Paris Express, alongside contemporary fiction and scholarship on lesbian literary and cultural history. Donoghue lives in London, Ontario, with her partner and their children.