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Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario on July 10, 1931. After graduating from high school, she attended the University of Western Ontario from 1949-1951. Majoring in English, it was at Western where Munro began to take her writing seriously. In 1951, she married James Munro and moved with him to Vancouver where they began raising a family. In 1963, they moved to Victoria and started Munro's Books, which remains one of the best bookstores on Vancouver Island. When her marriage ended in 1972, Munro returned to southwestern Ontario. She and her second husband, whom she married in 1976, live on a farm in Huron County.

Over the last twenty-eight years, Alice Munro has published one novel, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), and seven collections of short stories: Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1976), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), The Progress of Love (1986), Friend of My Youth (1990), and Open Secrets (1994). Three of those collections, Dance of the Happy Shades , Who Do You Think You Are? , and The Progress of Love  have won the Governor General's Award for fiction, and Who Do You Think You Are?  was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Other honours she has received include the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award for Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Canada-Australia Literary Prize (1977). In 1986, Alice Munro was the first winner of the Marian Engel Award, a $10,000 presented by the Writers' Development Trust to a Canadian woman author for outstanding prose writing. In 1995, Open Secrets  received the W.H. Smith Award for the best book published in Britain throughout the previous year. Stories by Alice Munro have also been among the most popular ever published in prestigious periodicals like The New Yorker , The Paris Review , and Atlantic Monthly .

A bibliography of books and articles about the works of Alice Munro

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