Dzhodzho Moyes

Jojo Moyes (real name Pauline Sara Jo Moyes Arthur) was born on August 4, 1969, and grew up in London. She graduated from the University of London. In 1992, she won a scholarship from the British daily newspaper The Independent, which enabled her to enter the graduate program at City University London, where she studied journalism. Later, she worked for that newspaper for ten years. Before devoting herself entirely to her writing career, she worked as a taxi driver, a Braille typesetter, wrote text for travel brochures, and wrote articles for The Daily Telegraph.

Jojo wrote her first book, Sheltering Rain, in 2002, inspired by the love story of her own grandparents, which unfolded against the backdrop of World War II. The success of this book inspired Moyes to leave journalism and devote herself entirely to writing.

The writer is one of the few to have won the Romantic Novelists' Association Award in the category "Romantic Novel of the Year" twice: the first time in 2004 for the novel Foreign Fruit; the second time in 2011 for The Last Letter from Your Lover.

She currently lives on a farm in Essex with her husband, journalist Charles Arthur, and their three children.