Morag Prunty (born 14 April 1964), is a magazine editor and
New York Times bestselling
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author who also writes as ''Kate Kerrigan''.
Biography
Morag Prunty was born in
Scotland
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, of Irish parents. She had three siblings. She grew up in London from the age of two. She left school at 15 and became a hairdresser. At nineteen she began working as a magazine writer. She worked in ''Looks'' where she was the youngest editor on a national British publication. She also worked in ''More'' and ''
Just Seventeen
''Just Seventeen'', often referred to as ''J-17'', was a fortnightly magazine aimed at teenage girls, published by Emap from October 1983 to April 2004. A special preview edition was given away free with sister magazine ''Smash Hits'' on 13 Oct ...
''.
In 1991 Prunty moved to
Dublin
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to take over the relaunch of ''Irish Tatler''.
She lived in Dublin with her husband, Niall Kerrigan, with whom she has two sons. They bought a house in
Killala
Killala () is a village in County Mayo in Ireland, north of Ballina. The railway line from Dublin to Ballina once extended to Killala. To the west of Killala is the townland of Townsplots West (known locally as Enagh Beg), which contains a num ...
,
County Mayo
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. Prunty suffers with arthritis.
Bibliography
*Boys: A User's Guide, illustrated by Alison Everitt, Piccadilly (London, England), 1993.
*Dancing with Mules, Pan (London, England), 2001, published as Wild Cats and Colleens, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2001.
*Disco Daddy, Pan (London, England), 2002.
*Poison Arrows, Pan (London, England), 2003.
*Superstar Lovers, Tivoli (Dublin, Ireland), 2004.
*Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, Hyperion (New York, NY), 2006
Sources
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1964 births
British women writers
Irish women writers
Living people