BIO
- Born on July of 1931, the 10th day.
- At Wingham, a community located in the municipality of North Huron, which is located in Huron County, a province of Ontario, Canada, by the Lake Huron: one of the Great Lakes (a.k.a. Laurentian Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Erie, Ontario and Huron [Michigan-Huron]), the largest group of interconnected freshwater lakes on Earth located in northeastern North America, on the Canada--US border.
- Married in 1951
MAJOR WORKS
Mainly known for her short stories, she started writing them in her teens but her first book-length publication was in 1968, the story collection Dance of Happy Shades. Followed by:- Lives of Girls and Women, a bildungsroman (1971)
- Who Do You Think You Are? (1978)
- Moons of Jupiter (1982)
- Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2001), filmed as Away from Her (2006) by Sarah Polley
- Runaway (2004)
- The View form Castle Rock (2006)
- Too Much Happiness (2009)
- Dear Life (2012)
Critical studies (a selection)
- Probable Fictions : Alice Munro’s Narrative Acts / edited by Louis K. MacKendrick. – Downsview, Ont. : ECW Press, 1983
- Dahlie, Hallvard, Alice Munro and Her Works. – Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, 1984
- The Art of Alice Munro : Saying the Unsayable : Papers From the Waterloo Conference / edited by Judith Miller. – Waterloo, Ont. : University of Waterloo Press, 1984
- Martin, W. R., Alice Munro : Paradox and Parallel. – Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, 1986
- Blodgett, E. D., Alice Munro. – Boston : Twayne, 1988
- Carrington, Ildikó de Papp, Controlling the Uncontrollable : The Fiction of Alice Munro. – DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 1989
- Rasporich, Beverly Jean, Dance of the Sexes : Art and Gender in the Fiction of Alice Munro. – Edmonton, Alta. : University of Alberta Press, 1990
- Redekop, Magdalene, Mothers and Other Clowns : The Stories of Alice Munro. – London: Routledge, 1992
- Carscallen, James, The Other Country : Patterns in the Writing of Alice Munro. – Toronto : ECW Press, 1993
- Heble, Ajay, The Tumble of Reason : Alice Munro’s Discourse of Absence. – Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1994
- Howells, Coral Ann, Alice Munro. – Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1998
- The Rest of the Story : Critical Essays on Alice Munro / edited by Robert Thacker. – Toronto : ECW Press, 1999
- Munro, Sheila, Lives of Mothers & Daughters : Growing Up With Alice Munro. – Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 2001
- Thacker, Robert, Munro : Writing Her Lives : a Biography. – Toronto : Douglas Gibson, 2005
- Mazur, Carol, Alice Munro : An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism / compiled by Carol Mazur ;edited by Cathy Moulder. – Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2007
- Hooper, Brad, The Fiction of Alice Munro : An Appreciation. – Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008
- Skagert, Ulrica, Possibility-Space and Its Imaginative Variations in Alice Munro's Short Stories. – Stockholm : Stockholm University, 2008
- Alice Munro / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. – New York : Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009
- Duncan, Isla, Alice Munro’s Narrative Art. – New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
- Alice Munro / Charles E. May, editor. – Ipswich, Mass. : Salem Press, 2013
