爱玛•多诺霍（Emma Donoghue）,1969年10月出生于都柏林，父亲是文学评论家。少年时光大多在都柏林的一家天主教女子修道院学校度过，唯有十岁时在纽约的一年生活异常精彩。1990年获得都柏林大学学院英语以及法语一等荣誉学位（最高等级），但却拙于开口说法语。随后 移居英格兰，在剑桥获得博士学位（论18世纪虚构作品中的男女友谊）。23岁时写作为生，自从做了一个月的旅店服务员而被解雇后，便以不曾拥有一份靠谱工作而深觉幸运。此后经年往来于英国、爱尔兰以及加拿大，1998年定居于加拿大安大略省的伦敦市，如今与伴侣Chris Roulston以及幼子Finn (7岁)、幼女Una (3岁)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