Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is journalism, literary activity and prose. Works named in the authority record are The Giver of Stars. Distinctions recorded are Romantic Novelists' Association Awards.

• Birth Name — Pauline Sara Jo Moyes • Born — 4 August 1969 • Birthplace — Maidstone, Kent, England • Language — English • Education — Royal Holloway, University of London • Period — 1993–present • Genre — Romance • Spouse — Charles (Maxwell) Arthur • Children — 3 • Website — http: www.jojomoyes.com

Pauline Sara-Jo Moyes was born on 4 August 1969, in Maidstone, England. 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. She earned a journalism degree from City University as well as a degree at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London University. Moyes won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper, which allowed her to attend the postgraduate newspaper journalism course at City University in 1992. She subsequently worked for The Independent for the next 10 years (except for one year, when she worked in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post) in various roles, becoming Assistant News Editor in 1998. In 2002 she became the newspaper's Arts and Media Correspondent.

Early in her writing career, 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. 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. Moyes would later write two sequels to Me Before You: After You in 2015 and Still Me in 2018. In 2013, it was announced that Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter had been hired to write an adaptation of Me Before You. In 2016 the film adaptation Me Before You was released and the screenplay was written by Moyes. 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. Her book Paris for One and Other Stories is part of the 2015 Quick Reads collection and she contributed a short story to A Fresh Start, from the 2020 Quick Reads collection.

Moyes now lives in Hampstead Heath, London, having previously lived on a farm in Great Sampford, Essex. She divorced her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, in 2020. In 2025 Moyes spoke enthusiastically on BBC Radio 4 of her lifelong love of horses, saying that her animals include an ex-racehorse and a rescued 58 kg female Pyrenean mountain dog.

• Sheltering Rain, AKA Return to Ireland (2002) • Foreign Fruit, AKA Windfallen (2003) • The Peacock Emporium (2004) • The Ship of Brides (2005) • Silver Bay (2007) • Night Music (2008) • The Horse Dancer (2009) • The Last Letter from Your Lover (2011) • Me Before You series: • Me Before You (2012) • After You (2015) • Still Me (2018) • Lou In Lockdown (2020), short story • The Girl You Left Behind series: • Honeymoon in Paris (2012), novella • The Girl You Left Behind (2012) • The One Plus One (2014) • The Giver of Stars (2019) • Someone Else's Shoes (2023) • We All Live Here (2025)

Collections: • Paris for One and Other Stories (2015), collection of 10 short stories and 1 novella: • "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"

• Me Before You (2016), film directed by Thea Sharrock, based on novel Me Before You • Im Schatten das Licht (2020), TV-film directed by Vivian Naefe, based on novel The Horse Dancer • The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021), film directed by Augustine Frizzell, based on novel The Last Letter from Your Lover, distributed by Netflix

Jojo Moyes was recorded at birth as Pauline Sara Jo Moyes. The authorities additionally record the heading Pauline Sara Jo Moyes Arthur. Her recorded language was English.

Jojo Moyes is recorded as journalist, novelist, writer and screenwriter.