Alice Munro Biography:
Alice Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario to a family of farmers. She studied at the University of Western Ontario but left to marry James Munro. With Munro, she parented three daughters and ran a bookshop in Victoria. She was later divorced and maried Gerald Fremlin, a geographer. They reside in Clinton, Ontario.
Alice Munro is the author of twelve books (as of Nov. 2004), and is largely known and celebrated for her short stories exploring the inner lives of female protagonists. In 1998, Munro won Canada's Giller Prize for The Love of a Good Woman, and she won the 2004 Giller Prize for Runaway. Both are short story collections.
She has also been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction; the W.H. Smith Award, three Governor General's Awards, and the Trillium Book Award, among others.
Dates:
(1931 - )
Nationality:
Canadian
Recent Work:
Runaway, 2004
