Chapter 2: Sisters and Brothers Alice Munro

Alice Munro (1931-)

Alice Munro was born in Wingham, Ontario, Canada, attended the University of Western Ontario. She resided in Victoria, British Columbia, while she raised her three daughters, and now lives in southern Ontario. She is one of Canada's preeminent authors, having won the highest Canadian literary award, the Governor General's Literary Award, for Dance of the Happy Shades (1969), in which "Boys and Girls" appears, and Lives of Girls and Women (1971). Munro has also written a novel, Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974); The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose, a story-sequence; and six collections of short stories: The Moons of Jupiter (1982), The Progress of Love (1986), and Friend of My Youth (1990), Open Secrets (1994), Selected Stories (1996), and The Love of a Good Woman (1998). She writes often about female characters and their quest for autonomy. Author Links Alice Munro This site features a brief biography of Munro as well as a photograph of her.

"Boys and Girls" Alice Munro

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