"I shall always imagine him, diffident in tweeds, arriving in a tranquil, well-ordered and beautiful place full of nice-looking people, and thinking, 'This looks lovely--I bet it isn't.'"
New York Times obituary, November 22, 2016, quoting Trevor biographer Robert Cooper
"With total conviction he has written about the rural Irish on their farms, about provincial towns, about commercial Dublin, about middle-class Protestants and the remnants of the aristocracy. He offers a complete picture of life on that island."--Gregory W. Schirmer, author of William Trevor: a study of his fiction (1990)
Mentions a celebrated short story from late in his career, "The News from Ireland," set in the 1840s famine.
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