John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many novels, including The Book of Evidence, The Untouchable, and Eclipse. Banville’s novel The Sea was awarded the 2005 Man Booker Prize. Banville’s novel Ancient Light will be published later this year. A crime novel, Vengeance, written under the pen name Benjamin Black, will appear in the summer.
Books
The Snows of Yesteryear
The author of Memoirs of an Anti-Semite tells his own story through portraits of the members of his childhood household. “An elegiac tribute to a receding past and a testament to the redemptive powers of memory—a family photography album, beautifully translated into words.—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review
The Lord Chandos Letter and Other Writings
In Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s celebrated autobiographical novella a young nobleman reveals to his patron Sir Francis Bacon his particularly modern crisis of spirit.
Troubles
Troubles is a hilarious and heartbreaking work by a modern master of the historical novel.