Claim: Emma Donoghue was born in October of 1969 and is a novelist, short story writer, playwright, and literary historian.
Evidence: Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel Room was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's first novel was 1994's Stir Fry, a contemporary coming of age novel about a young Irish woman discovering her sexuality. This was followed in 1995 by Hood, another contemporary story, this time about an Irish woman coming to terms with the death of her girlfriend. While at Cambridge she lived in a women's co-op, an experience which inspired her short story The Welcome. Her novel Frog Music, a historical fiction based on the true story of a murdered 19th-century cross-dressing frog catcher, was published in 2014. 
(1969-10-24) 24 October 1969 (age 51)
Dublin, Ireland novelist, short story writer, playwright, literary historian Irish
Canadian Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter.