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11 Facts About Gordon Snell

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Gordon Snell is a British author of children's literature and scriptwriter.

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Gordon Snell was married to Irish author Maeve Binchy from 1977 until her death in 2012.

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Gordon Snell was an only child, and lived with his mother and father in Singapore during the British colonization period.

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Gordon Snell went with his mother to Australia looking for a boarding school for him.

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Gordon Snell attended the Geelong College in Victoria, leaving in 1946.

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Gordon Snell was separated from his father for three years, who was taken prisoner during the Japanese occupation of Singapore of World War II.

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Gordon Snell attended Oxford, where he was a friend and classmate of Bernard Donoughue.

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8.

Gordon Snell took his future wife on a hovercraft trip to Boulogne.

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Gordon Snell was by her hospital bedside when she died the following year.

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Gordon Snell's books include Amy's Wonderful Nest, Tina and the Tooth Fairy and The Supermarket Ghost.

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Gordon Snell has commissioned and edited the collection Thicker Than Water on growing up, contributed to by Irish and Irish-American writers.