Sebastian Barry’s plays have been produced in London, Dublin, Sydney, and New York. His novel, A Long, Long Way, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was The Secret Scripture, which was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award and the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction, as well as the Irish Novel of the Year. Mr. Barry lives in Wicklow, Ireland, with his wife and three children.