Culture That Made Me: Christine Dwyer Hickey on Mad Men, great women, and Edward Hopper

The author also includes Virginia Woolf and Mary Lavin in her selections 

Christine Dwyer Hickey: "I was fortunate to see Donal McCann in Faith Healer." Picture: Patrick Bolger.

Christine Dwyer Hickey grew up in the Templeogue/Walkinstown area of Dublin. She published her first book, The Dancer, in 1995. 

She has gone on to win several literary awards for her novels and short stories. In 2006, her acclaimed series about a Dublin family in the first part of the twentieth century was reissued as The Dublin Trilogy.