Alice Munro, author portrait

Alice Munro

ALICE MUNRO grew up in Wingham, Ontario and attended the University of Western Ontario (now Western University), studying journalism and English. Her first collection of stories was published in 1968 as Dance of the Happy Shades, which garnered much acclaim and won the Governor General’s Award for English fiction that year. Three years later, she published her only novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Over the next few decades, she published many more short story collections, including Who Do You Think You Are?; The Moons of Jupiter; Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, from which a story was later adapted into the two-time Academy Award–winning movie, Away from Her; Runaway; and The View from Castle Rock. Her stories appeared regularly in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review.

In 1978 Munro received her second Governor General’s Award for Who Do You Think You Are? and her third in 1986 with The Progress of Love. In 2009 she won the Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work. Her final story collection, Dear Life, came in 2012, and the next year, the same year she retired from writing, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature, hailed as the “master of the contemporary short story.” Munro has also been the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the W.H. Smith Award, two Giller Prizes, several Trillium Prizes, the Jubilee Prize, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, among many others.

Munro died in Millbrook, Ontario, in 2024.
Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Wilderness Station
Family Furnishings
The Office
Vintage Munro
Dear Life
Selected Stories of Alice Munro, 1968-1994
Too Much Happiness
The View from Castle Rock
Away from Her
Carried Away
Runaway
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Lives of Girls and Women
The Progress of Love
The Love of a Good Woman
Dance of the Happy Shades
Open Secrets
The Beggar Maid
Friend of My Youth
The Moons of Jupiter

Books

Julieta (Movie Tie-in Edition)
A Wilderness Station
Family Furnishings
The Office
Vintage Munro
Dear Life
Selected Stories of Alice Munro, 1968-1994
Too Much Happiness
The View from Castle Rock
Away from Her
Carried Away
Runaway
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Lives of Girls and Women
The Progress of Love
The Love of a Good Woman
Dance of the Happy Shades
Open Secrets
The Beggar Maid
Friend of My Youth
The Moons of Jupiter

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