Time of the Child

Niall Williams is an Irish author. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1958, Williams attended University College, Dublin, where he studied English and French literature. In 1980, Williams moved to New York, where he met and married his wife Christine “Chris” Breen and began working at Fox & Sutherland’s Bookshop in Mount Kisco. In 1985, Williams and Chris moved back to Ireland to pursue careers as writers. They began their life together in Chris’s late grandfather’s cottage in West Clare. Between 1987 and 1995, Williams co-wrote his first four books with Chris; these titles “tell of [the couple’s] life together in Co Clare” and include O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year Back in County Clare, When Summer’s in the Meadow, The Pipes Are Calling: Our Jaunts Through Ireland, and The Luck of the Irish: Our Life in County Clare (“Biography.” Niall Williams).

Williams’s independent works of fiction include Four Letters Of Love (1997), As It Is In Heaven (1999), The Way You Look Tonight (2000), The Fall of Light (2001), Only Say the Word (2005), The Unrequited (2006), Boy in the World (2007), Boy and Man (2008), John (2008), History of the Rain (2015),

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