(1st US ed. McGraw-Hill, 1973 dj)

(left: Douglas Gibson/M & S  dj, 1986; cover painting: Alex Colville’s “Elm Tree at Horton Landing”, AGO; middle: rare Munro reading of “The Progress of Love”, American Audio Prose Library, Inc., 1987; right: rare audio interview on cassette by American Audio Prose, 1987)

(1996 signed slipcased ed., Borzoi/Knopf)

(Munro was honoured by Canada Post with an envelope and stamps in 2015.07.10 and earlier–above–by the Canadian Mint in a $5 Fine Silver Coin, my example used)

(recommended–the first major critical overview: 2005 Douglas Gibson dj; Peter Sibbald (photo)

Alice (Ann) Munro (1931-2024) was born in Wingham, ON and has produced over 20 remarkable collections of short stories. She has been called ‘our Chekhov’, a gifted, master, internationally-renowned storyteller. Her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades, won the 1968 GG award for fiction as did her Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), and The Progress of Love (1986).

She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 and Canada bestowed special honours on her via the Mint and Canadian P.O.  Munro previously lived in Victoria, BC, where she once worked at Munro’s Books, a bookshop with her ex-husband Neil. I used the stories “Images”, “Boys and Girls”, “Forgiveness in Families”, and “The Shining Houses” in my story anthologies.