The Irish writer William Trevor, who contributed dozens of short stories to The New Yorker over nearly four decades, has died at the age of eighty-eight. Trevor, who was born in 1928, in County Cork, Ireland, and who began his career as a sculptor and a copywriter, published more than forty volumes of fiction in his long career, including numerous novels, novellas, and plays. But he was best known as a master of the short story, a form whose strength, he once told The Paris Review, “lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.”
