Maeve Binchy
Maeve Binchy Snell , known as Maeve Binchy, was an Irish novelist, playwright, short story writer, columnist, and speaker best known for her sympathetic and often humorous portrayal of smalltown life in Ireland, her descriptive characters, her interest in human nature, and her often clever surprise endings. Her novels, which were translated intolanguages, sold more thanmillion copies worldwide, and her death at age 73, announced by Vincent Browne on Irish television late onJuly 2012, was mourned as the death of Irelands bestloved and most recognisable writer.
Anne Maeve Binchy was born onMay 1939 in Dalkey, the oldest of the four children of William and Maureen Binchy. Her siblings include one brother, William Binchy, Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College, Dublin, and two sisters Irene Renie , and Joan, Mrs Ryan. Her uncle was the historian D. A. Binchy . Educated at St Annes , Dn Laoghaire, and later at Holy Child Convent, Killiney, she went on to study at University College Dublin , she worked as a teacher of French, Latin, and history at various girls schools, then a journalist at The Irish Times, and later became a writer of novels, short stories, and dramatic works.
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