Alice Munro (1931- )

• born in Wingham, Ontario, near Lake Huron on July 10, 1931
• educated at the University of Western Ontario
• worked her way through university as a waitress, house servant, tobacco picker, and library clerk
• married Gerald Fremlin
• lived in with her husband and family for more than twenty years in British Columbia
• lived in Vancouver and then Victoria, where she ran a book store
• in 1976 she returned to Ontario with her second husband
• now lives with her husband in Clinton, Ontario, near Wingham
• her stories often appear in The New Yorker and The Atlantic
• Short Story Collections:
  • Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) received the Governor General's Award
  • Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974)
  • Who Do You Think You Are? (1978) received the Governor General's Award, short listed for the Booker Prize
  • The Progress of Love (1986) received the Governor General's Award
  • Friend of My Youth (1990)
• Novels:
  • Lives of Girls and Women (1971) first written as short stories
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