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Jul. 27, 2018
The master’s farewell gift
William Trevor was, by all critical accounts that matter, one of the two greatest writers of short stories, in English, of our age. He died two years ago well into his 80s, but not before finishing his "Last Stories."
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
William Trevor was, by all critical accounts that matter, one of the two greatest writers of short stories, in English, of our age. He died two years ago well into his 80s, at his home in rural, Protestant Ireland. His female equal, the only slightly younger Canadian Alice Munro, was honored the year before that by the Nobel Committee with its literature prize. It was a great vindication of the short story for those of us who write and publish them. ("Novels are a mar...
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