Alice Munro

Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published nine previous collections of stories as well as a novel, Live of Girls and Women. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and its Giller Prize; the Rea Award for Short Fiction; the Lannan Literary Award; the W. H. Smith Award; and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. Alice Munro and her husband divide their time between Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron, and Comox, British Columbia.