We wanted to pay homage to Alice Munro. Eileen drove us to Wingham, where Munro had been born, and then to Clinton, where she later lived for much of her life, many of those years with her second ...

The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it ...

When news broke this week of Alice Munro remaining ... page than we are in life. Sometimes a story, like a dream, tells us ...

When we met, Munro was willing and businesslike ... her mother’s experiences as a writer and drew on archival and published sources—that Alice’s personal life, while certainly a consideration, was ...

again,” Alice Munro told a friend in a buoyant letter of March 1975. For Munro, who was then emerging as one of her generation’s leading writers, the previous few years had been blighted by ...

The truth is, like Charles Dickens, Tolstoy and Alice Walker, Munro is a great writer, in part because of her personal ...

Do we experience life as a continuum or as a series of disconnected shocks and accidents? Alice Munro started writing at a time when ... Then there is the girl who, after a personal disaster, goes ...

Munro is only the thirteenth woman to win the prize since its inception in 1901. The Nobel Foundation said they had been unable to reach her and had left a message on her phone. Photo: Reuters ...

Canada is a gigantic country, containing different landscapes, climates, peoples, cultures and languages. Alice Munro cuts it down to a disconcertingly small size. She situates her stories somewhere ...