Alice Munro

Alice Munro was born Alice Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario, in 1931, the daughter of a fox farmer in financial difficulty and a former schoolteacher. She left university in 1951, married and, from 1963, ran a bookshop in Victoria with her first husband while raising three daughters. From 1977 she published in the New Yorker, where many of her later stories appeared, and she received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She died in 2024 in Port Hope, Ontario.

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• Short storiesDance of the Happy ShadesAlice Munro · 1968Literature