Alice Munro

Alice Munro, born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada, is a noted short story writer who currently lives in the small town of Clinton, Ontario. She is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario. In 1986 she was awarded the Marian Engel Award for her body of work.

Works:

• Dance of the Happy Shades - 1968 (winner of the 1968 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
• Lives of Girls and Women - 1971
• Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You - 1974
• Who Do You Think You Are? - 1978
• The Moons of Jupiter 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Friend of My Youth - 1990 (winner of the Trillium Book Award)
• The Progress of Love - 1986 (winner of the 1986 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
• Open Secrets - 1994 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Selected Stories - 1996
• The Love of a Good Woman - 1998 (winner of the 1998 Giller Prize)
• Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage - 2001

See also: List of Canadian writers