William Trevor in The New Yorker

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.”