Nobel-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro was best known as a master of the short story. Here are five from her celebrated trove: In one of her earliest stories, Munro delved into what would ...
Nobel-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro was best known as a master of the short story. Here are five from her celebrated trove: In one of her earliest stories, Munro delved into what would ...
The first lines in “Royal Beatings,” from Alice Munro’s 1978 collection Who Do You Think You Are?, read as follows: “Royal Beating. That was Flo’s promise. You are going to get one Royal Beating.” The ...
Her principal subject was sex, its power to sweep away reason and twist life out of shape, and she wrote of it better than any other Canadian writer, without mentioning any body parts. Sex, she ...
Of course I can believe that Alice Munro is dead. She was born in 1931. For some years I have expected that she might die. She has lived for a long time, and she has not written – or at least ...
Alice Munro in 2013: she shared Chekhov's obsession with time and people's inability to delay or prevent its relentless propulsion forward Credit: Alamy Alice Munro, the writer, who has died aged ...
Few writers have possessed the short-story format as thoroughly as the Canadian author and Nobel laureate Alice Munro, who has died aged 92. Although her early years as a writer were clouded by ...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Literature Prize winner best known for her mastery of short stories and depictions of womanhood in rural settings, has died in Ontario, Canada, at the age of 92. The news ...
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes. By Anthony DePalma Alice Munro, the revered Canadian author who started writing short ...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author who perfected the art of the contemporary short story, died on Monday, May 13, Penguin Random House Canada has confirmed. She was 92 years old.