Terence de Vere White

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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

  1. Thames and Hudson
    . Page 83.
  2. .
  3. . Retrieved 12 October 2008.
  4. ^ 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.