How I Met My Husband | Biography
Born in Wingham, Ontario, on July 10, 1931, Alice Munro published her first story in 1950 while attending Western Ontario University, where she majored in English. Her first collection of short stories, however, Dance of the Happy Shades, was not published for another eighteen years. Munro comments that Wingham and its surroundings play an important part in her stories, both in their literal and emotional landscapes. She says in her Introduction to Selected Stories (1996) that “the ways lives were lived [in Wingham], their values, were very 19th century and things...
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