Quote by: Alice Munro

I don’t take up the story and follow it as if it were a road, taking me somewhere... I go into it, and move back and forth and settle here and there, and stay in it for a while. It is more like a house.


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Author Bio


  • NameAlice Munro
  • DescriptionCanadian author
  • AliasesAlice Ann Munro; Alice Ann Laidlaw
  • BornJuly 10, 1931
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionWriter; Screenwriter
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Governor General's Awards; Trillium Book Award; Order Of Ontario; Scotiabank Giller Prize; Man Booker Prize; Ordre Des Arts Et Des Lettres; National Book Critics Circle Award; Marian Engel Award; WH Smith Literary Award; PEN/Malamud Award; Rea Award For The Short Story; O. Henry Award; Commonwealth Writers' Prize; Molson Prize