Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women, and two volumes of Selected Stories. During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canada's Governor General's Literary Awards and two of its Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, England's W. H. Smith Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Paris Review, Granta, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages. She lives in Clinton, Ontario, near Lake Huron.

"One of the great short story writers not just of our time but of any time."--The New York Times Book Review

"Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished."--The New York Review of Books

"She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion."--Jonthan Franzen

"The authority she brings to the page is just lovely."--Elizabeth Strout

"She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive."--Jeffery Eugenides

"Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can."--Julian Barnes

"She is a short-story writer who . . . reimagined what a story can do."--Lorrie Moore

"There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story."--Jim Shepard

"A true master of the form."--Salman Rushdie

"A wonderful writer."--Joyce Carol Oates