William Trevor

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Trevor, undated

About the author

William Trevor
Biographical details ▽ Biographical details △

Born
Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, 1928

Died
Crediton, Devon, England, 2015

Places lived
Ireland: Skibbereen, Tipperary, Youghal and Enniscorthy;
England: London and Devon

Nationality
Irish

Forms of writing
Novels, stories, plays

Writing language
English

Greatest lists ▽ Greatest lists △
Irish Literature

• Children of Dynmouth (1976)

• Fools of Fortune (1983)

• The Collected Stories (1992)

• Felicia's Journey (1994)

Works published in book form

A Standard of Behaviour, novel, 1958

The Old Boys, novel, 1964

The Boarding House, novel, 1965

The Love Department, novel, 1966

Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel, novel, 1969

The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Other Stories, story collection, 1969

Miss Gomez and the Brethren, novel, 1971

The Ballroom of Romance, story collection, 1972

Includes "Access to the Children", "Nice Day at School", "The Ballroom of Romance", "The Forty-seventh Saturday", "A Happy Family", "Going Home", "An Evening with John Joe Dempsey", "The Mark-2 Wife", "The Grass Widows", "A Choice of Butchers", "Kinkies", "O Fat White Woman"

Elizabeth Alone, novel, 1973

Last Lunch of the Season, story collection, 1973

Angels at the Ritz and Other Stories, story collection, 1975

Old School Ties, story collection, 1976

The Children of Dynmouth, novel, 1976

Lovers of their Time, story collection, 1978

Other People's Worlds, novel, 1980

Beyond the Pale, story collection, 1981

Fools of Fortune, novel, 1983

The Stories of William Trevor, story collection, 1983

A Writer's Ireland: Landscape in Literature, nonfiction, 1984

The News from Ireland and Other Stories, story collection, 1986

Nights at the Alexandra, novella, 1987

The Silence in the Garden, novel, 1988

Family Sins and Other Stories, story collection, 1989

Juliet's Story, children's book, 1991

Two Lives, novella collection, 1991

Includes Reading Turgenev and My House in Umbria

The Collected Stories, story collection, 1992

Excursions in the Real World, memoirs, 1993

Felicia's Journey, novel, 1994

Ireland: Selected Stories, story collection, 1995

Outside Ireland: Selected Stories, story collection, 1995

After Rain, story collection, 1996

Cocktails at Doney's: And Other Stories, story collection, 1996

Three Early Novels, novel collection, 1997

Death in Summer, novel, 1998

The Hill Bachelors, story collection, 2000

Includes "Three People", "Of the Cloth", "Good News", "The Mourning", "A Friend in the Trade", "Low Sunday, 1950", "Le Visiteur", "The Virgin's Gift", "Death of a Professor", "Against the Odds", "The Telephone Game", "The Hill Bachelors"

The Story of Lucy Gault, novel, 2002

A Bit on the Side, story collection, 2004

Includes "Sitting with the Dead", "Traditions", "Justina's Priest", "An Evening Out", "AGraillis's Legacy", "Solitude", "Sacred Statues", "Rose Wept", "Big Bucks", "On the Streets", "The Dancing-Master's Music", "A Bit on the Side"

The Dressmaker's Child, story collection, 2005

Cheating at Canasta, story collection, 2007

Love and Summer, novel, 2009

The Collected Stories, story collection, 2009

Selected Stories, story collection, 2010

Last Stories, story collection, 2018

 

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