John Banville - Private Life

Private Life

Banville has two adult sons with his wife, the American textile artist Janet Dunham. They met during his visit to San Francisco in 1968 where she was a student at the University of California, Berkeley. Dunham described him during the writing process as being like "a murderer who's just come back from a particularly bloody killing". Banville lives with Patricia Quinn, former head of the Arts Council of Ireland, with whom he has two daughters.

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