The best-selling Irish author is reportedly one of former first lady Barbara Bush's favorite writers. Binchy enjoys the unique tax-free status granted to writers, screenwriters, poets, playwrights, composers, and painters by the Irish government.
Went to University College Dublin in 1957 and has had two main characters in her books (Benny in "Circle of Friends" and Clare in "Echoes") attend the same
university and study the same subjects she did.
Her husband is English.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series,
vol. 134, pages 52-57. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.