Terence de Vere White; Irish Novelist, Critic and Editor

Terence de Vere White, an Irish novelist and critic, has died of Parkinson’s disease. He was 82.

White died Friday at his London home, according to a death notice published in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph.

White attended Trinity College in his native Dublin and planned to become a lawyer, like his father. But he left the law in 1961 to become the literary editor of the Irish Times.

He went on to write 26 books--the last of them, the novel “Chat Show,” seven years ago.

“Lucifer Falling” in 1967 was the first of his books to be published in the United States as well as in Great Britain. Reviewing the novel, The Times’ critic noted that White “fascinatingly treads the shoals and devious paths of the Dublin university he creates with surety, nimble wit, biting humor, sardonic description, and, oftentimes, compassion.”

White was made a member of the Irish Academy of Letters in 1968.

In 1977, White left Dublin and moved to London to be near the biographer and novelist Victoria Glendinning, whom he married in 1982.

The author is survived by his wife and by three children from his first marriage.