![]() ![]() She now lives in Comox, British Columbia and Clinton, Ontario. From 1963 she ran a bookshop in Victoria, British Columbia for several years, before returning to Ontario in 1972. Although not necessarily directly autobiographical, they reflect the author's own life experiences, are concerned with women's lives and are 'probably unrivalled in their fullness' (Washington Post 1998).īorn in 1931 to a farming family, Alice Munro won a scholarship to the University of Western Ontario, where she studied from 1949-1951, but she left before graduating and moved to Vancouver. Her accessible, moving stories are set in her native Canada, in small, provincial towns like the one in which she grew up, and explore human relationships through ordinary everyday events. Her books consist of collections of short stories, and one book which has been published as a novel, although it is actually a set of inter-linked stories which falls between the two genres. Canadian writer Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, South West Ontario and has written short fiction since 1950. ![]()
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