Jennifer Johnston (novelist)

Jennifer Johnston is an Irish novelist.

She was born in the Irish Free State on January 12, 1930, and educated at Trinity College Dublin. She is the daughter of Irish actor/director Shelah Richards and the playwright Denis Johnston, and a cousin of the late actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, via Fitzgerald's mother, Edith, who was a Catholic convert.

She currently lives in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Many of her novels deal with the fading of the Protestant Anglo-Irish ascendancy in the 20th century.

Bibliography

Novels

• The Captains and the Kings (1972)
• The Gates (1973)
• How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974)
• Shadows on Our Skin (1977)
• The Old Jest (1979), winner of a Whitbread Book Award for 1979
• The Christmas Tree (1981)
• The Railway Station Man (1985)
• Fool's Sanctuary (1988)
• The Invisible Worm (1992)
• The Illusionist (1995)
• Two Moons (1998)
• Finbar's Hotel, edited by Dermot Bolger (1999) (Contributor)
• The Essential Jennifer Johnston (1999) (contains The Captains and the Kings, The Railway Station Man, and Fool's Sanctuary)
• Great Irish Stories of Murder and Mystery (2000) (Contributor)
• The Gingerbread Woman (2000)
• This is not a Novel (2002)
• Grace and Truth (2005)

Plays

• The Nightingale and Not the Lark (1981)
• Indian Summer (1983)
• Andante un Poco Mosso, in The Best Short Plays 1983, (1983)
• The Porch (1986)
• The Desert Lullaby: A Play in Two Acts (1996)

She is a member of Aosdána.

External links

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