Alice Munro

Alice Munro is the author of twelve previous collections of stories—the most recent of which are Runaway, The View from Castle Rock, and Too Much Happiness—as well as a novel, Lives of Girls and Women. Among the many awards and prizes she has received are: three Governor General’s Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes in Canada; the Rea Award, the Lannan Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, and other publications, and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages.