Morag Prunty | |
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Born | 14 April 1964 Scotland |
Other names | Kate Kerrigan |
Website | http://katekerriganauthor.blogspot.com/ |
Morag Prunty (born 14 April 1964), is a magazine editor and New York Times bestselling author who also writes as Kate Kerrigan.[1][2]
Morag Prunty was born in Scotland, of Irish parents. She had three siblings. She grew up in London from the age of two. She left school at 15 and became a hairdresser. At nineteen she began working as a magazine writer. She worked in Looks where she was the youngest editor on a national British publication. She also worked in More and Just Seventeen.
In 1991 Prunty moved to Dublin to take over the relaunch of Irish Tatler.[3][4][5][6]
She lived in Dublin with her husband, Niall Kerrigan, with whom she has two sons. They bought a house in Killala, County Mayo. Prunty suffers with arthritis.[7][3][8][5]