愛瑪•多諾霍（Emma Donoghue）,1969年10月齣生於都柏林，父親是文學評論傢。少年時光大多在都柏林的一傢天主教女子修道院學校度過，唯有十歲時在紐約的一年生活異常精彩。1990年獲得都柏林大學學院英語以及法語一等榮譽學位（最高等級），但卻拙於開口說法語。隨後 移居英格蘭，在劍橋獲得博士學位（論18世紀虛構作品中的男女友誼）。23歲時寫作為生，自從做瞭一個月的旅店服務員而被解雇後，便以不曾擁有一份靠譜工作而深覺幸運。此後經年往來於英國、愛爾蘭以及加拿大，1998年定居於加拿大安大略省的倫敦市，如今與伴侶Chris Roulston以及幼子Finn (7歲)、幼女Una (3歲)居住在一起。

It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, Room is a novel like no other. 'Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' Audrey Niffenegger 'Room is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important ...Room deserves to reach the widest possible audience' John Boyne 'I loved Room. Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before' Anita Shreve