Gordon Snell, a British children’s author and scriptwriter, died on April 29, 2026.
He was 93. Born in Singapore in 1932, he later attended the Geelong College in Victoria after moving to Australia with his mother during the Japanese invasion of Singapore in 1942.
Snell worked as a freelance producer at the BBC, where he met Irish author Maeve Binchy. The two married in 1977 and later lived in Dalkey, outside Dublin, in the home they shared until Binchy’s death in 2012.
Gordon Snell, 93, British children’s author. (death announced on this date)