Alice Munro (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

Alice Munro is one of Canada’s best writers of short fiction. She was born to Robert Eric Laidlaw, a fox farmer, and his ailing but ambitious wife, Ann Chamney Laidlaw. In 1949 Munro left her birthplace of Wingham to attend the University of Western Ontario. In 1951 she married James Munro and moved to Vancouver, where she and her husband had two daughters. In 1963 the couple moved to Victoria, British Columbia, and in 1966 they had a third child, another daughter.

From her youth, Munro had been writing stories. Her early efforts were romantic tales, like her first published...

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