Ali Hewson Ali Hewson Alison Hewson (née Stewart; born 23 March 1961) is an Irish activist and businesswoman. She is the wife of singer and musician Paul Hewson, known as Bono, from the rock group U2. Raised in Raheny, she met her future husband at age 12 at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, and married him in 1982. She was awarded a degree in politics and sociology from University College, Dublin (UCD) in 1989. The couple have four children together and live at residences in Ireland, France, and the United States. She has inspired several U2 songs, most famously "Sweetest Thing." Hewson became
David Hewson wrote prose adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays "Macbeth" (released 2011) and "Hamlet" (released 2014) exclusively for Audible.com, and alone he wrote an adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet", again exclusively for Audible. The three novels were narrated by Alan Cumming and Richard Armitage (who narrated both "Hamlet" and "Romeo and Juliet"), respectively. Hewson left school at 17 and joined a local newspaper, the Scarborough Evening News, in the north of England. He was later a news, business and foreign reporter for "The Times", and features editor of "The Independent" when it was launched in 1986. He served as a board member