Over the next five and a half years, he interviewed over 1400 authors including Anthony Burgess, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Christopher Isherwood and Stephen King. In 1978, he created the award-winning weekly show "Bookshelf" for BBC Radio Four, which covered books, writers and the business of publishing. After 5 years of reporting on the violence, he moved to London to work in Arts broadcasting. In the early 1970's he became a news reporter for the BBC in Dublin and covered an intense period of violence known as The Troubles. In 1970, Delaney began working as a newsreader for the Irish state radio and television network RTE. He was the author of New York Times best-seller "Ireland", the non-fiction book "Simple Courage: A True Story of Peril on the Sea", and many other works of fiction, non-fiction and collections. Frank Delaney was a novelist, journalist and broadcaster.
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