Life
1940- [pseud. ‘Vincent Lawrence’]; b. Wexford; ed. UCD;
taught in Nigeria for five years; works as literary journalist in Dublin;
brother John Banville; freq. reviewer of children’s books in Irish
Times; first pseudonymous novel, An End to Flight (1973), follows
an Irish protagonist through Nigerian civil war; others published under
his own name incl. Death by Design (1993), and Death of the
Pale Rider (1995), both thrillers set in Dublin; Hennessy to the
Rescue (1995), for children; writes Paperback Crimefile reviews, for The Irish Times. DIL
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Works
Fiction, [as Vincent Lawrence,] An End to Flight (London:
Faber & Faber 1973), and Do. [rep edn] (Dublin: New Island Press 2002),
235pp.; [as Vincent Banville,] Death by Design (Dublin: Wolfhound
Press 1993), and Death of the Pale Rider (Dublin: Poolbeg 1995),
248pp.
Children’s Fiction, Hennessy to the Rescue (Dublin: Poolbeg 1995)
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- H. M. Buckley, ‘Thriller Minutes’, rev. of Death of the Pale Rider, Books Ireland (Dec. 1995), p.326;
- Colm Tóibín, ‘Back to a dark Bafrian drama’, review of An End to Flight, in The Irish Times (21 Dec. 2002) [rep. edn.]
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Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco)