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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