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- Lives of Girls and Women (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
- The Love of a Good Woman (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Progress of Love (Magill Book Reviews)
- Open Secrets (Magill Book Reviews)
- Selected Stories (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Beggar Maid (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Boys and Girls (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Floating Bridge (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- How I Met My Husband (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Meneseteung (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Moons of Jupiter (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Wild Swans (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Walker Brothers Cowboy (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Friend of My Youth (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- The Love of a Good Woman (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- Open Secrets (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- Runaway (Magill's Literary Annual 1991-2005)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Canadian Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Friend of My Youth (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- Lives of Girls and Women (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- The Progress of Love (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- Royal Beatings (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Save the Reaper (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Selected Stories (Magill's Literary Annual 1997)
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- Author: Alice Munro
Author Profile
Alice Munro grew up in a small rural community in western Ontario. Her father spent most of his life raising fox for the commercial fur market, which resulted in a life of poverty or abundance, depending on the changing conditions of the foxes and the market. Her childhood was filled with struggling to belong to her peer group and always excelling at academics. Her intelligence won for her scholarships to high school and college, and poverty made her drop out of college after her second year. Fear of poverty enticed her to marry Jim Munro when she was twenty.
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