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Alice Munro, "Boys and Girls"

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[From The Norton Introduction to Literature]

(b. 1931)

Widely considered Canada's best short story writer, Alice Laidlaw was born on a farm in Wingham, Ontario, near Lake Huron.She began publishing stories while attending the University of Western Ontario. When her two-year scholarship ran out, she left the university, married James Munro, and moved to Vancouver. Her stories appeared sporadically during the 1950s, and she did not publish her first collection, the Governor General's Award–winning Dance of the Happy Shades, until 1968. Divorced and remarried, she returned to Ontario and went on to publish the novel Lives of Girls and Women (1971) and the collections Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974), Who Do You Think You Are? (1978, published in the US as The Beggar Maid in 1979), The Moons of Jupiter (1983), The Progress of Love (1986), Friend of My Youth (1990), Open Secrets (1994), Selected Stories (1996), The Love of a Good Woman (1998), Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, and Marriage (2001), and Runaway (2004).

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