Chris Binchy has worked as an embassy researcher, painter, and hotel manager; trained as a sushi chef; written articles as a restaurant critic for Dublin's Sunday Tribune; and contributed to the Irish Times, the Sunday Times, the Sunday Independent, the Evening Herald, and the Dubliner. His first novel, The Very Man, was short-listed for the Irish Novel of the Year award. Binchy is also the author of People Like Us and Open-Handed. He lives with his wife and three children in Dublin. This is his first novel to be published in the US.
This biography was last updated on 07/01/2010.
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