So far she’s written 17 novels including her breakout book We Need to Talk About Kevin which was made into a movie starring Tilda Swinton and put Lionel Shriver on the map. When she’s not sitting at her desk thinking up stories to terrify us like the one about Kevin committing mass murder at his high school, you can probably find Shriver on the tennis court or saying something politically incorrect or in her kitchen mixing up a mean rhubarb cream pie. Lionel Shriver talks about how she’s made an art out of speaking her mind and the suicide pact in her new book Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Lionel Shriver’s Rhubarb Cream Pie