"... He drew us into the lives of English and Irish s and s, priests and parishioners, and even those who, by dint of circumstance or carefully curated effort, ascended a rung or two on the hierarchy. And although his work very much reflected the prevailing political and religious mores of its settings, it did not focus on the large sweep of history. Instead, Trevor settled his gaze on private yearnings and small, wayward impulses: stories about siblings scuffling over small-bore inheritances, about lost love, about minor duplicities, and, always, about the press and passage of time."
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William Trevor
(published as William Trevor; 24 May 1928 – 20 November 2016) was an Irish novelist, short story writer, playwright, and television dramatist. Although he remained an Irish citizen, he and his wife in 1952 moved to England, where their two sons were born and where he worked as a teacher, sculptor, and for an advertising agency. In 1964 he became a full time writer. In 1976 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). He was appointed in 1979 (CBE) and in 2002 (KBE). In 1994
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