Patricia Scanlan (born 1956) is an Irish novelist of over 20 books.
Biography
Scanlan was born in
Dublin
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of th ...
where she still lives, she was a Dublin City librarian for 17 years. While she was working, Scanlan was also writing her first novel because she was short of money. That book was published in 1992. Since then she has published 19 novels, short stories, poems and edited anthologies. She is based in
Clontarf.
Scanlan is the creator of the
Open Door Series The Open Door series, an adult literacy series of novellas by well-known Irish authors, was launched in the mid-1990s by Irish publisheNew Islandand author Patricia Scanlan. Scanlan had worked in public libraries in Dublin before becoming a full-tim ...
for adult literacy and teaches creative writing to secondary school age girls.
Bibliography
* City Girl (1992)
* City Lives (1999)
* City Woman (1993)
* Second Chance (2000)
* Secrets (2006)
* Forgive and Forget (2008)
* Happy Ever After (2009)
* Love and Marriage (2011)
* Apartment 3B (1991)
* Finishing Touches (1992)
* Foreign Affairs (1994)
* Promises, Promises (1996)
* Mirror Mirror (1997)
* Two for Joy (2001)
* Francesca's Party (2001)
* Double Wedding (2004)
* Divided Loyalties (2006)
* Coming Home (2009)
* With All My Love (2013)
* Coming Home... for Christmas (2014)
* A Time For Friends (2015)
Collections
* Selected Poems (poems) (1993)
* Foreign Affairs / City Woman (1997)
* Reeling in slow motion (poems) (2002)
* Winter Blessings (2005)
* A Gift For You (2015)
Novellas
* Ripples (1999)
* Fair-weather Friend (2004)
References
Irish women novelists
Writers from Dublin (city)
Living people
1956 births
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