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.

"Munro has a strong claim to being the best fiction writer now working in North America."--Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review

"Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does."--Jhumpa Lahiri

"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