Munro, Alice,
short story writer (b at Wingham, Ont. 10 July 1931). Munro's early years were
spent in western Ontario. She met her first husband, James Munro, at the U of
Western Ontario, and after 2 years of university she moved with him to
Vancouver. In 1963 Alice helped establish Munro's Books, and in 1972 she
returned to Ontario where she married Gerald Fremlin in 1976. Alice Munro was
awarded the Gov Gen's Award for Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and
Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), which was also runner-up for the Booker
Prize. She is also the recipient of the Canadian Booksellers Assn International
Book Year Award for Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The
Canada-Australia Literary Prize (1977), and the first winner of the Marian Engel
Award (1986).
1936-43 Educated locally, at
Lowertown, Wingham Public, and Wingham and District High Schools. Was reading
"pretty desperately" (Ross 15) by age nine or ten. Always feeling the outsider
in a society where "the male and female roles are very clearly defined" (Murch
43).
1943-48 Began writing verse,
chiefly Tennysonian, and adventure stories around age 12, and continued with a
good deal of imitative fiction in high school.
1949-51
Attended University of Western Ontario on a scholarship, studying first
journalism and then English. Published earliest stories in undergraduate
literary magazine, Folio. Despite summer and library jobs, left university in
1951 when award money ran out.
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Munro Books
DANCE OF THE HAPPY SHADES (1968)
LIVES OF GIRLS AND WOMEN (1971)
SOMETHING I'VE BEEN MEANING TO TELL YOU (1974)
THE BEGGAR MAID (1978)
THE MOONS OF JUPITER (1983)
THE PROGRESS OF LOVE (1986)
FRIEND OF MY YOUTH (1990)
OPEN SECRETS (1994)
SELECTED STORIES (1996)
THE LOVE OF A GOOD WOMAN (1998)
HATESHIP, FREINDSHIP, COURTSHIP, LOVESHIP, MARRIAGE (2001)
NO LOVE LOST (2003--CANADA)
VINTAGE MUNRO (2004)
RUNAWAY (2004)
