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Maeve Binchy (1940–2012)

Author of Tara Road

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Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin, Ireland on May 28, 1940. She received a B.A. from University College in Dublin in 1960. After teaching at a school for girls, she became a journalist, columnist and editor at the Irish Times. By 1979, she was writing plays, a successful television script, and several short story collections. Her first novel, Light a Penny Candle, was published in 1982. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 20 books including Silver Wedding, Scarlet Feather, Heart and Soul, Minding Frankie, and A Week in Winter. The Lilac Bus and Echoes were made into TV movies, while Circle of Friends, Tara Road and How About You were made into feature films. Her title Chestnut Street is a New York Times Best Seller. She died after a brief illness on July 30, 2012 at the age of 72. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Tara Road… (more)
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Works by Maeve Binchy
Tara Road 4,266 copies, 50 reviews
Circle of Friends 3,700 copies, 50 reviews
Scarlet Feather 2,884 copies, 49 reviews
Quentins 2,809 copies, 42 reviews
Evening Class 2,643 copies, 39 reviews
The Glass Lake 2,450 copies, 27 reviews
Nights of Rain and Stars 2,364 copies, 62 reviews
Whitethorn Woods 2,129 copies, 62 reviews
The Copper Beech 1,981 copies, 27 reviews
Light a Penny Candle 1,896 copies, 26 reviews
Heart and Soul 1,714 copies, 57 reviews
A Week in Winter 1,640 copies, 106 reviews
Echoes 1,633 copies, 20 reviews
Firefly Summer (Author) 1,553 copies, 22 reviews
Minding Frankie 1,470 copies, 78 reviews
The Lilac Bus 1,208 copies, 20 reviews
This Year It Will Be Different 1,178 copies, 22 reviews
Silver Wedding 1,148 copies, 22 reviews
The Return Journey (Author) 1,035 copies, 17 reviews
London Transports 753 copies, 10 reviews
Chestnut Street 680 copies, 21 reviews
Irish Girls About Town: An Anthology of Short Stories (Contributor) 559 copies, 15 reviews
Dublin 4 358 copies, 4 reviews
A Few of the Girls: Stories 319 copies, 9 reviews
Maeve's Times: In Her Own Words 239 copies, 2 reviews
Firefly Summer | The Lilac Bus | Silver Wedding 175 copies, 2 reviews
Aches & Pains 129 copies, 2 reviews
Full House 119 copies, 6 reviews
The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club 116 copies, 4 reviews
Star Sullivan 109 copies, 6 reviews
The Builders (Open Door) 82 copies, 6 reviews
Victoria Line 53 copies
Dublin People: Short Stories: 2500 Headwords 48 copies
A Week in Summer: A Short Story 45 copies, 1 review
Circle of Friends [and] Silver Wedding 36 copies
M.I.L.K: Friendship: Moments of Intimacy Laughter Kinship, Vol. 2 35 copies
Light a Penny Candle | The Lilac Bus 34 copies
Circle of Friends | The Copper Beech 26 copies, 1 review
Cross Lines 26 copies
The Garden Party and Other Stories (BBC Dramatization) 25 copies, 1 review
Ride on Rapunzel: Fairytales for Feminists (Contributor) 25 copies
Dublin 4 | Lilac Bus | Victoria Line, Central Line 22 copies, 1 review
Deeply Regretted By 21 copies
Dear Maeve 21 copies
The Copper Beech | Evening Class 20 copies
Central Line 19 copies
Maeve Binchy's Treasury 19 copies
The Homecoming and Other Stories (BBC Dramatization) 16 copies, 1 review
The Glass Lake | Quentins | Scarlet Feather 16 copies
The Cruise 14 copies
Sister Caravaggio 13 copies
The Copper Beech | Evening Class | Tara Road 13 copies
PLPR4:Evening Class RLA 12 copies
Echoes | Light a Penny Candle 12 copies
Maeve Binchy Omnibus II: Firefly Summer / Echoes 10 copies
My first book 10 copies, 1 review
No Nightingales, No Snakes: A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama (BBC Audio) 10 copies
Circle of Friends | The Copper Beech | Evening Class | Tara Road 8 copies
Circle of Friends | The Copper Beech | The Glass Lake 8 copies
Time-Life Book Digest: Circle of Friends | Magic Hour | Jurassic Park |… 7 copies
Maeve's diary: From Maeve Binchy's column in the 'Irish times' 7 copies
Stories from Ireland 7 copies
The Return Journey | This Year It Will Be Different 7 copies
Half-Promised Land 6 copies
Histoires à lire: six nouvelles 6 copies
End of Term 5 copies
Dusty's Winter: from The Maeve Binchy Writers' Club (A Vintage Short) 5 copies, 1 review
The Copper Beech | Echoes 5 copies
The September Letters 4 copies, 1 review
Maeve Binchy Three Great Novels: Scarlet Feather / Tara Road / Evening… 4 copies
A Time to Dance 4 copies
Circle of Friends | Firefly Summer 4 copies
Maeve Binchy Multiple Volumes 3 copies
Maeve Binchy 3 book boxed set - Dublin 4, Lilac Bus, Silver Wedding 2 copies
LAGO DE CRISTAL , EL (Spanish Edition) 2 copies
Time-Life Book Digest: The Copper Beech | Red Square | My Breast: One… 2 copies
De Alma e Coração 1 copy
BOSQUES DE WHITETHORN,LOS FG PDL 1 copy
Zeit der Kastanienblüte: Roman (German Edition) 1 copy
Leopard Prince, The 1 copy
This Year will be Differeent 1 copy
Homecoming and other stories 1 copy
Vluchtige ontmoetingen 1 copy
White Thorn Woods 1 copy
Time-Life Book Digest: McNally's Secret / The Duchess / Dance White You… 1 copy
Maeve Binchy Firefly Summer 1987 1 copy
Breathing Lessons / The Alphabet Sisters / Firefly Summer (Contributor) 1 copy
Il lago di cristallo 1 copy
Desde el corazón 1 copy, 1 review
By Maeve Binchy:Minding Frankie [Hardcover] 1 copy
Dusty's Winter 1 copy
Echoes | Evening Class | Tara Road 1 copy
Echoes | Silver Wedding 1 copy
Echoes | Nights of Rain and Stars 1 copy
Maeve Binchy: A Radio Collection: Four BBC Full-Cast Story Collections… 1 copy
And All for Love ... (Advanced) 1 copy
Georgia Hall (in New Beginnings - KING) 1 copy
Change of Circumstances 1 copy
Maeve Binchy: Silver Wedding / Firefly Summer / Light a Penny Candle 1 copy
Etwas Aufregendes / Was ist Glück?, 1 Audio-CD 1 copy
Weiße Weihnacht: Die schönsten Geschichten zum Fest. Lesungen 1 copy
Walk in the Woods, A * 1 copy
El Lago De Cristal 1 copy
Gens d'Irlande 1 copy
the return wedding 1 copy
A través de la ventana 1 copy
How About You 1 copy
Collected Stories 1 copy
Night School 1 copy
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The Thorn Birds (Introduction, some editions) 7,260 copies, 144 reviews
Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel (Contributor) 217 copies, 3 reviews
Never No More (Introduction, some editions) 92 copies, 5 reviews
The Book Lovers' Appreciation Society: Breast Cancer Care Short Story… (Contributor) 87 copies, 1 review
In Sunshine or in Shadow: Stories by Irish Women (Contributor) 49 copies, 2 reviews
Thicker Than Water: Coming-of-Age Stories by Irish & Irish American… (Contributor) 48 copies, 1 review
No More Than Human (Introduction, some editions) 46 copies, 4 reviews
New Beginnings: New Writing from Bestselling Authors Sold in Aid of the… (Contributor) 44 copies
Rapunzel's Revenge (Contributor) 40 copies
The Anchor Book of New Irish Writing (Contributor) 38 copies
New Dubliners: Original Stories Celebrating 100 Years of Joyce's Dubliners (Contributor) 26 copies, 1 review
The Penguin Book of Irish Comic Writing (Author, some editions) 24 copies, 1 review
The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories (Contributor) 16 copies, 1 review
Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection (Contributor) 15 copies
Love Stories (Contributor) 9 copies
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Canonical name
Legal name
Binchy Snell, Maeve
Other names
Date of birth
1940-05-28
Date of death
2012-07-30
Burial location
Gender
female
Nationality
Ireland
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland
Place of death
Dublin, Ireland
Cause of death
heart attack
Places of residence
Dalkey, Ireland
London, England, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Education
Holy Child Convent, Killiney, Ireland
University College Dublin
Occupations
journalist
novelist
teacher
Relationships
Snell, Gordon (husband)
Binchy, Dan (Cousin)
Agents
Organizations
Irish Times
Awards and honors
British Book Award (Lifetime Achievement Award ∙ 1999)
Irish Book Award Lifetime Achievement (2010)
Short biography
Maeve Binchy was born on 28 May 1940 in Dalkey, County Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of four. She studied at University College Dublin, then taught, and later became a journalist. She was married to Gordon Snell, also a writer.
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