Ali Hewson live in Australia. The Stewart family, who resided in the suburb of Raheny on Dublin's Northside, raised their children as Protestants. Her father was a self-educated electrical worker who, according to Hewson, was "constantly questioning" things. Her mother, who was a housewife, had a secretarial career in mind for her daughter. Alison studied at Mount Temple Comprehensive School. At the age of twelve, she met Paul Hewson, who was in the year above at the school. He pursued her immediately, but she initially kept her distance, labeling him "an eejit" even though she secretly admired him. In September 1974, Paul's
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