Terence de Vere White
Terence de Vere White (29 April 1912 – 17 June 1994) was an Irish lawyer, writer and editor.
Life
Career
Born in
Trinity College, Dublin. He later qualified as a solicitor and became a partner at a leading Dublin law firm. He gave up law when he became the literary editor of The Irish Times
, a post he held from 1961 to 1977.
Writing in
Conservative ever to bring about such a change except by gradual and almost imperceptible degrees."[1]
He retired from the newspaper in 1977.
He wrote twelve novels, five biographies, two volumes of short stories and five other books of general interest.[2]
Personal life
de Vere White married Mary O'Farrell in 1941 and they had two sons and a daughter. He was also the father of Dervla Murphy's daughter, born in 1968.[3]
At the time of his death, he was married to Victoria Glendinning.[4]
Selected works
- The Road of Excess (1945) - biography of Isaac Butt
- Kevin O'Higgins (1948)
- The Story of the Royal Dublin Society (1955)
- A Fretful Midge (1957) - novel
- An Affair With the Moon (1959) - novel
- Prenez Garde (1961) - novel
- The Remainder Man (1963) - novel
- Lucifer Falling (1966) - novel
- Tara (1967) - novel
- The Parents of Oscar Wilde: Sir William and Lady Wilde (1967)
- Leinster (1968)
- Ireland (1968) - "New Nations & Peoples" series
- The Lambert Mile (1969) - novel
- The Lambert Revels (1969) - novel
- The March Hare (1970) - novel
- The Minister for Justice (1971) - novel
- Mr. Stephen (1971) - novel
- The Anglo-Irish(1972)
- After Sunset (1973) - play
- The Distance and the Dark (1973) - novel
- The Radish Memoirs (1974) - novel
- The Real Charlotte (1975) - play
- Chimes at Midnight and Other Stories (1977) - fiction
- Tom Moore: The Irish Poet (1977)
- My Name is Norval (1979) - novel
- Birds of Prey: Stories (1980) - fiction
- Johnnie Cross (1983) - novel about George Eliot
- Chat Show (1987) - novel
Sources
- Thames and Hudson. Page 83.
- ISBN 0-7171-2945-4.
- ISBN 1-57958-424-1. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
- ^ Niall Stanage, "Confessions of a storyteller" - interview with Victoria Glendinning, The Sunday Business Post, July 21, 2002 "Confessions of a storyteller - interview with Victoria Glendinning: ThePost.ie". Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 18 May 2007.