Colm Toibin Biography and latest books by Colm Toibin

Colm Toibin is an Irish journalist, writer, poet, essayist, and playwright. His writings include The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, Mothers and Sons, Brooklyn, The Empty Family, The Testament of Mary, Walking along the border, Martyrs and Metaphors, The trial of the generals : selected journalism, Homage to Barcelona, Dubliners, Bad Blood: A Walk along the Irish Border, The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives From Wilde to Almodovar, Lady Gregory\'s Toothbrush, The Use of Reason, A Guest at the Feast, and New Ways to Kill Your Mother: Writers and their Families.

Toibin was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. He attended St Peter\'s College, Wexford and University College Dublin. He is a member of the Aosdána – an Irish association of artists. He has lectured at the Stanford University, The University of Texas at Austin, Princeton University, Boston College, New York University, Loyola University Maryland, and The College of the Holy Cross. He currently teaches at Columbia University.