[2] He studied English and French Literature at University College Dublin, where he met his wife, American writer and editor Christine Breen.
[3] A £25 cheque for his first story, and a nod of approval, was the confirmation he needed from the world to dedicate his life to writing.
He worked briefly at Fox and Sutherland’s bookstore in Mount Kisco, New York, near his wife’s home town of Katonah before becoming a copywriter at Avon Books.
[5] His first four books were non-fiction chronicles of rural life in County Clare in the decade prior to the Celtic Tiger, co-written with Breen.
Similar to Macondo in the works of Gabriel García Márquez, Faha is a village steeped in magic realism which acts as a backdrop for Williams’ stories.
[23]Williams was a teacher of English and French in St Michaels Community College Secondary School in Kilmihil.