This is Happiness (Williams) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—1958
• Where—Dublin, Ireland
• Education—B.A., M.A., University College Dublin
• Currently—lives in Kiltumper, County Clare, Ireland


Niall Williams is a playwright, author. He was born in Dublin, where years later her studied English and French literature at University College Dublin and eventually graduated with a Master's degree in Modern American Literature.

After his univesity years, hHe moved to New York in 1980 where he married Christine Breen, whom he had met while she was a Master's student also at UCD Williams took his first job opening boxes of books in a bookshop in Mount Kisco. Later, he worked as a copywriter for Avon Books in New York City before deciding to try life as a writer.

In 1985 he and his wife left America, returning to Ireland to the cottage in west Clare that Chris's grandfather had left eighty years before to find his life in America.

Williams's first four books were co-written with his wife, Chris, telling of their life together in Kiltumper in west Clare. His first of three plays, The Murphy Initiative, was staged in 1991 at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin. His second, A Little Like Paradise, was produced on the Peacock stage of The Abbey Theatre in 1995, and his third, The Way You Look Tonight, was produced by Galway's Druid Theatre Company in 1999. (Adapted from the publisher.)