Author profile: Alice Munro

Below you will find a complete bibliography of Alice Munro's books as well as a selected bibliography of books and articles about Alice Munro and her works. (This bibliography was last updated in 1999. Check back in the Spring of 2002 for a revised version)

Books by Alice Munro:

• Munro, Alice. Dance of the Happy Shades. Toronto: Ryerson Publishing, 1968.
• ---. Friend of my Youth. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
• ---. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2001.
• ---. Lives of Girls and Women. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1971.
• ---. The Love of a Good Woman.Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999.
• ---. The Moons of Jupiter. Toronto: Macmillan, 1982.
• ---. Open Secrets. Toronto: Knopf, 1995.
• ---. The Progress of Love. Toronto: Knopf, 1986.
• ---. Selected Stories. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
• ---. Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You ... Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1974.
• ---. Who Do You Think You Are? Toronto: Macmillan, 1978.

Books about Alice Munro:

• Besner, Neil. Introducing Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women. Toronto: ECW Press, 1990.
• Blodgett, E. D. Alice Munro. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.
• Carrington, Ildiko de Papp. Controlling the Uncontrollable: The Fiction of Alice Munro. De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1989.
• Carscallen, James. The Other Country: Patterns in the Writing of Alice Munro. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993.
• Dahlie, Hallvard. Alice Munro and Her Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1984.
• Heble, Ajay. The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
• MacKendrick, Louis K. (ed.). Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. Toronto: ECW Press, 1983.
• ---. Some Other Reality: Alice Munro's Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993.
• Martin, W. R. Alice Munro: Paradox and Parallel. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 1987.
• Miller, Judith (ed ). The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable; Papers from Waterloo Conference. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984.
• Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. Alice Munro: A Double Life. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992.
• Smythe, Karen E. Figuring Grief: Gallant, Munro, and the Poetics of Elegy. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992.

Articles about Alice Munro:

• Baum, Rosalie Murphy. "Artist and Woman: Young Lives in Laurence and Munro." North Dakota Quarterly 52.3 (June 1984): 196-211.
• Beran, Carol L. "Images of Women's Power in Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Women." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 15.2 (1990): 55-76.
• Bowen, Deborah. "In Camera: The Developed Photographs of Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 13.1 (1988): 20-33.
• Cam, Heather. "Learning from the Teacher: Alice Munro's Reworking of Eudora Welty's 'June Recital'." SPAN: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies 25 (Oct. 1987): 16-30.
• Carrington, Ildiko de Papp. "Definitions of Fool: Alice Munro's 'Walking on Water' and Margaret Atwood's Two Stories about Emma: 'The Whirlpool Rapids' and 'Walking on Water'." Studies in Short Fiction 28.2 (Mar. 1991): 135-49.
• ---. "Talking Dirty: Alice Munro's 'Open Secrets' and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men." Studies in Short Fiction 31.4 (Sept. 1994): 595-606.
• ---. "What's in a Title?: Alice Munro's 'Carried Away'." Studies in Short Fiction 30.4 (Sept. 1993): 555-64.
• Carscallen, James. "The Shining House: A Group of Stories; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 85-101.
• ---. "Three Jokers: The Shape of Alice Munro's Stories." Centre and Labyrinth: Essays in Honour of Northrop Frye. eds. Eleanor Cook, Chaviva Hosek, Jay Macpherson, et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. 128-146.
• Daziron, Heliane. "The Anatomy of Embedding in Alice Munro's 'Half a Grapefruit'." Recherches Anglaises et Nord AmÉricaines .20 (1987): 103-107.
• ---. "The Preposterous Oxymoron: A Study of Alice Munro's 'Dance of the Happy Shades." Literary Half Yearly 24.2 (July 1983): 116-124.
• Ditsky, John. "The Figure in the Linoleum: The Fictions of Alice Munro." The Hollins Critic 22.3 (June 1985): 1-10.
• Eldredge, L. M. "A Sense of Ending in Lives of Girls and Women." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 9.1 (1984): 110-115.
• Fitzpatrick, Margaret Anne. "'Projection' in Alice Munro's Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 15-20.
• Fowler, Rowena. "The Art of Alice Munro: The Beggar Maid and Lives of Girls and Women." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 25.4 (June 1984): 189-198.
• Garson, Marjorie. "Synecdoche and the Munrovian Sublime: Parts and Wholes in Lives of Girls and Women." English Studies in Canada 20.4 (Dec. 1994): 413-29.
• Gilbert, Paula Ruth. "All Roads Pass Through Jubilee: Gabrielle Roy's La Route d'Altamont and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women." Colby Quarterly 29.2 (June 1993): 136-48.
• Gittings, Chris. "The Scottish Ancestor: A Conversation with Alice Munro." Scotlands .2 (1994): 83-96.
• Godard, Barbara. "'Heirs of the Living Body': Alice Munro and the Question of a Female Aesthetic; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 43-71.
• Gold, Joseph. "Our Feeling Exactly: The Writing of Alice Munro; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 1-13.
• Goldman, Marlene. "Penning in the Bodies: The Construction of Gendered Subjects in Alice Munro's Boys and Girls." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 25.1 (1990): 62-75.
• Grabes, Herbert. "Creating to Dissect: Strategies of Character Portrayal and Evaluation in Short Stories by Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant." Modes of Narrative: Approaches to American, Canadian and British Fiction. Eds. Reingard M. Nischik, and Korte Barbara. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1990. 110-118.
• Hancock, Geoffrey. "An Interview with Alice Munro." Canadian Fiction Magazine .43 (1982): 74-114.
• Hanly, Charles. "Autobiography and Creativity: Alice Munro's Story 'Fits'." Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian Literature. ed. K. P. Stich. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988. 163-74.
• Harris, Margaret. "Authors and Authority in Lives of Girls and Women." Sydney Studies in English .12 (1987): 101-113.
• Horwood, Harold. "Interview with Alice Munro; Papers from Waterloo Conf." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 123-35.
• Houston, Pam. "A Hopeful Sign: The Making of Metonymic Meaning in Munro's 'Meneseteung'." The Kenyon Review 14.4 (Sept. 1992): 79-92.
• Howells, Coral Ann. "Alice Munro's Art of Indeterminacy: "The Progress of Love"." Modes of Narrative: Approaches to American, Canadian and British Fiction. Eds. Reingard M. Nischik and Barbara Korte. Wurzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann, 1990. 141-52.
• Howells, Coral Ann. "Worlds Alongside: Contradictory Discourses in the Fiction of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood." Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. Eds. Robert Kroetsch, and Reingard M. Nischik. Edmonton: NeWest, 1985. 121-136.
• Hoy, Helen. "Alice Munro: 'Unforgettable, Indigestible Messages'." Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'Études Canadiennes 26.1 (Mar. 1991): 5-21.
• ---. "'Rose and Janet': Alice Munro's Metafiction." Canadian Literature .121 (June 1989): 59-83.
• Irvine, Lorna. "'Changing Is the Word I Want'." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 99-111.
• Irvine, Lorna. "Questioning Authority: Alice Munro's Fiction." CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 50.1 (Sept. 1987): 57-66.
• Kamboureli, Smaro. "The Body as Audience and Performance in the Writing of Alice Munro." A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing. Shirley Neuman, and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon. 31-38.
• Kroller, Eva Marie. "The Eye in the Text: Timothy Findley's The Last of the Crazy People and Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women." World Literature Written in English 23.2 (Mar. 1984): 366-374.
• Lamont Stewart, Linda. "Order from Chaos: Writing as Self Defense in the Fiction of Alice Munro and Clark Blaise; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 113-121.
• Martin, W. R. "Family Relations in Alice Munro's Fiction." New Quarterly: New Directions in Canadian Writing 7.1/2 (Mar. 1987): 247-254.
• ---. "Hanging Pictures Together: Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 21-34.
• ---. "The Strange and Familiar in Alice Munro." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 7.2 (1982): 214-226.
• Mathews, Lawrence. "Who Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro's Art of Disarrangement." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 181-193.
• Mayberry, Katherine J. "'Every Last Thing . . . Everlasting': Alice Munro and the Limits of Narrative." Studies in Short Fiction 29.4 (Sept. 1992): 531-41.
• ---. "Narrative Strategies of Liberation in Alice Munro." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 19.2 (1994): 57-66.
• McCarthy, Dermot. "The Woman out Back: Alice Munro's 'Meneseteung'." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 19.1 (1994): 1-19.
• McMullen, Lorraine. "'Shameless, Marvellous, Shattering Absurdity': The Humour of Paradox in Alice Munro." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 144-162.
• Munro, Alice. "An Appreciation." Room of One's Own 9.2 (June 1984): 32-33.
• Noonan, Gerald. "Alice Munro's Short Stories and the Art That Distrusts Art." Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English: Proceedings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. ed. Jacqueline Bardolph. Nice: FacultÉ des Lettres & Sciences Humaines de Nice, 1989. 141-146.
• ---. "The Structure of Style in Alice Munro's Fiction." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 163-180.
• Orange, John. "Alice Munro and a Maze of Time." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 83-98.
• Osachoff, Margaret Gail. "'Treacheries of the Heart': Memoir, Confession, and Meditation in the Stories of Alice Munro." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. Ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 61-82.
• Osmond, Rosalie. "Arrangements, 'Disarrangements,' and 'Earnest Deceptions'." Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Postcolonialism. Eds. Coral Ann Howells, Lynette Hunter, and Armando E. Jannetta. Milton Keynes, England: Open University Press, 1991. 82-92 .
• Perrakis, Phyllis Sternberg. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl: Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women." Atlantis: A Women's Studies Journal/Revue d'Études sur la Femme 7.2 (Mar. 1982): 61-67.
• Quartermaine, Peter. "'Living on the Surface': Versions of Real Life in Alice Munro's 'Lives of Girls and Women'." Recherches Anglaises et Nord AmÉricaines .20 (1987): 117-126.
• Robson, Nora. "Alice Munro and the White American South: The Quest; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press. 73-84.
• ---. "Sense of Place in Alice Munro's Fiction." The Literary Criterion 19.3/4 (1984): 138-146.
• Rocard, Marcienne. "Alice Munro: A Mi chemin entre la nouvelle et le roman." Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle: Journal of the Short Story in English .1 (1983): 103-112.
• ---. "Who Do You Think You Are? d'Alice Munro: Un Titre unifiant." Recherches Anglaises et AmÉricaines .16 (1983): 45-55.
• Rooke, Constance. "Fear of the Open Heart." A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing. Eds. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: Longspoon, 1986. 256-269.
• Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. "'At Least Part Legend': The Fiction of Alice Munro." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 112-126.
• Sellwood, Jane. "'Certain Vague Hopes of Disaster': A Psychosemiotic Reading of Alice Munro's 'The Found Boat' as the Flooding Text." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 17.1 (1992): 1-16.
• Smythe, Karen. "Sad Stories: The Ethics of Epiphany in Munrovian Elegy." University of Toronto Quarterly 60.4 (June 1991): 493-506.
• Stead, Kit. "The Twinkling of an 'I': Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth." The Guises of Canadian Diversity: New European Perspectives/Les Masques de la diversité canadienne: Nouvelles Perspectives Européennes. Eds. Serge Jaumain and Marc Maufort. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 151-64.
• Stich, K. P. "The Cather Connection in Alice Munro's 'Dulse'." Modern Language Studies 19.4 (Sept. 1989): 102-111.
• Strauss, Jennifer. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Cultural Contexts and the Quest for Identity in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women and in Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and My Career Goes Bung." Australian Canadian Studies 8.2 (1991): 41-55.
• Struthers, J. R. "Alice Munro's Fictive Imagination; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. ed. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 103-112.
• Struthers, J. R. Tim. "The Real Material: An Interview with Alice Munro." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 5-36.
• Struthers, J. R. "Some Highly Subversive Activities: A Brief Polemic and a Checklist of Works on Alice Munro." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 6.1 (1981): 140-142.
• Stubbs, Andrew. "Fictional Landscape: Mythology and Dialectic in the Fiction of Alice Munro." World Literature Written in English 23.1 (Dec. 1984): 53-62.
• Suarez Lafuente, M. S. "Fiction and Reality in Alice Munro's Short Stories." Short Fiction in the New Literatures in English: Proceedings of the Nice Conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. ed. Jacqueline Bardolph. Nice: FacultÉ des Lettres & Sciences Humaines de Nice, 1989. 147-151.
• Tausky, Thomas E. "'What Happened to Marion?' Art and Reality in Lives of Girls and Women." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 11.1 (Mar. 1986): 52-76.
• Taylor, Michael. "The Unimaginable Vancouvers: Alice Munro's Words." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. Louis K. MacKendrick. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 127-143.
• Tener, Jean F. "The Invisible Iceberg; Papers from Waterloo Conference." The Art of Alice Munro: Saying the Unsayable. Judith Miller. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 1984. 37-42.
• Thacker, Robert. "Alice Munro: An Annotated Bibliography." The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors. Robert Lecker, and Jack David. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1984. 354-414.
• ---. "Alice Munro's Willa Cather." Canadian Literature .134 (Sept. 1992): 42-57.
• ---. "'Clear Jelly': Alice Munro's Narrative Dialectics." Probable Fictions: Alice Munro's Narrative Acts. ed. MacKendrick Louis K. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1983. 37-60.
• ---. "Connection: Alice Munro and Ontario." American Review of Canadian Studies 14.2 (June 1984): 213-226.
• ---. "'So Shocking a Verdict in Real Life': Autobiography in Alice Munro's Stories." Reflections: Autobiography and Canadian LiteratureEd. K. P. Stich. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988. 153-161.
• Thomas, Sue. "Reading Female Sexual Desire in Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36.2 (Dec. 1995): 107-20.
• Ventura, Heliane. "Alice Munro's 'Boys and Girls': Mapping Out Boundaries." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 15.1 (14 1992): 80-87.
• ---. "The Setting Up of Unsettlement in Alice Munro's 'Tell Me Yes or No'." Postmodern Fiction in Canada. Eds. Theo D'haen, and Hans Bertens. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1992. 105-23.
• Warwick, Susan J. "Growing Up: The Novels of Alice Munro." Essays on Canadian Writing .29 (June 1984): 204-225.
• Weinhouse, Linda. "Alice Munro: Hard Luck Stories or There Is No Sexual Relation." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 36 .2 (Dec. 1995): 121-29.
• Woodcock, George. "The Plots of Life: The Realism of Alice Munro." Queen's Quarterly 93.2 (June 1986): 235-250.
• York, Lorraine. "'Gulfs' and 'Connections': The Fiction of Alice Munro." Essays on Canadian Writing .35 (Dec. 1987): 135-46.
• York, Lorraine M. "Lives of Joan and Del: Separate Paths to Transformation in Lives of Girls and Women and Lady Oracle." University of Windsor Review 19.2 (Mar. 1986): 1-10.
• ---. "The Rival Bards: Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women & Victorian Poetry." Canadian Literature .112 (Mar. 1987): 211-216.
• ---. "'The Other Side of Dailiness': The Paradox of Photography in Alice Munro's Fiction." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 8.1 (1983): 49-60.