Gordon Snell, children’s author and husband of Maeve Binchy, dies aged 93

Prolific writer of more than 70 children’s books also worked in broadcasting and shared a creative partnership with Maeve Binchy

Children's writer Gordon Snell with his late wife and author Maeve Binhcy at their home in Dalkey in 2007. File picture

The death has occurred of Gordon Snell, a children’s author, journalist, and husband of the late author Maeve Binchy.

Snell was born in Singapore in 1932. At the age of ten, he went to boarding school in Australia, where he spent several years with his family.