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On Alice Munro | The Center for Fiction

Alice Munro, who was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of thirteen story collections, most recently Dear Life.

Alice Munro was no better than the miserable women she wrote about

I assumed Munro was standing with us, above these miserable women, looking down on them with pathos if not blessing.

Alice Munro: Riches of a double life - The Guardian

"She doesn't write pruriently. She just writes it - I think any woman reading the stories which deal with that recognises them as truthful." ...

Writers on Munro | The New Yorker

She is a short-story writer who is looking over and past every ostensible boundary, and has thus reshaped an idea of narrative brevity and ...

I Don't Write Like Alice Munro, but I Want to Live Like Her

Ms. Munro only ever wrote short stories — not novels, though she must have been pressured to. She died in a small town not too far from where ...

List of Books by Alice Munro | Barnes & Noble®

Alice Munro (1931-2024) was a Canadian short story writer who transformed our understanding of what stories could do, achieving the kind ...

Alice Munro - Wikipedia

Alice Ann Munro was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Her work tends to move forward and backward in time, ...

Alice Munro, The Art of Fiction No. 137 - The Paris Review

Henry Awards; she also is a regular contributor to The New Yorker. Despite these considerable accomplishments, Munro still speaks of writing with some of the ...

Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives - Quill and Quire

The long journey from the chesterfield to finally “having it” is the focus of Robert Thacker's ambitious account of the writer's life.

Is Alice Munro's Lone Novel… Even a Novel? - Literary Hub

Lives of Girls and Women is Munro's second book, and her only novel—or is it? Today, there is no easy answer or consensus to reach about which ...

Alice Munro – Biographical - NobelPrize.org

Alice Laidlaw Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada on July 10, 1931, the eldest child of Robert Eric Laidlaw (1901–76), a fox farmer, and Anne Clarke ...

Alice Munro's stories had a depth most novelists only dream of

“Miles City, Montana” (from “The Progress of Love”) is among my own favorite Munro stories. ... I've listed them in the order that I thought of ...

Alice Munro: Master of the Contemporary Short Story

Munro has always generously acknowledged the influences she has felt—the writers of the American South, most especially Eudora Welty and her The ...

Alice Munro's Best Work: A Guide - The New York Times

“Lives of Girls and Women” (1971) bills itself as a novel, but it's not, not really. It's a collection of linked short stories, all to do with ...

“What a Goddamn Writer She Was”: Remembering Alice Munro ...

Alice Munro, possibly the greatest short-story writer there ever was and certainly the greatest in the English language, is dead.

Alice Munro on telling stories | The Journal of Wild Culture

A conversation about the ways and means of the Canadian who won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature — for her "mastery of the contemporary short story ...

Opinion: Alice Munro stories gave voice to women's unspoken inner ...

Alice Munro received the Booker Prize in 2009 in Ireland. (Peter Morrison / Associated Press). By Jillian Horton. May 16, ...

How Mapping Alice Munro's Stories Helped Me As a Writer

I began to diagram some of Munro's stories, specifically those sprawling mid-career stories that often move all over in time yet nevertheless hang together ...

Alice Munro | Biography, Works, & Facts | Britannica

Munro's work is noted for its precise imagery and narrative style, which is at once lyrical, compelling, economical, and intense, revealing the depth and ...

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92 - NPR

Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning short story author, dies at 92 ... Canadian author Alice Munro as she receives a Man Booker International award ...