Alice Munro: In Brief

Canadian writer Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, South West Ontario and has written short fiction since 1950. 

Born 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. From 1963 she ran a bookshop in Victoria, British Columbia for several years, before returning to Ontario in 1972. She now lives in Comox, British Columbia and Clinton, Ontario. Her first short story was published in Folio, a student literary magazine, in 1950. During the 1950s and '60s her stories were also accepted for broadcast by CBC and for publication in various journals. Since then many more short stories have been published regularly in prestigious periodicals such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Atlantic Monthly.
As a prolific writer, she won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro revitalized the short story as a literary genre that is often looked down upon and perceived as a poor relation of the novel.

A list of famous works:
Here and Now (1977)The Moons of Jupiter: Stories (1983) 
Too Much Happiness (2007)

Queenie: A Story (1999)Dear Life (2012)