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Alice Ann Munro OOnt (/ m ə n ˈ r oʊ / mən-ROH; née Laidlaw / ˈ l eɪ d l ɔː / LAYD-law; 10 July 1931 – 13 May 2024) was a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.
One of Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s daughters, Andrea Robin Skinner, alleged her stepfather, Munro’s husband Gerald “Gerry” Fremlin, sexually abused her when she was a child, and said her ...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning short story author known for 'Dear Life,' has died. She was 92. ... Fremlin, her husband, died in 2013. Rourke is a former Times staff writer.
Munro was seemingly unaware of the abuse or her husband’s proclivities, until former friends of Fremlin told the author that he had exposed himself to their 14-year-old daughter.
Alice Munro dedicated her literary career almost exclusively to the short story genre. She grew up in a small Canadian town – Huron County, Ontario – the kind of environment that often provided the backdrops for her stories. These often accommodated the entire epic complexity of the novel in just a few short pages and the underlying themes ...
Too Much Happiness is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published on August 25, 2009 by McClelland and Stewart's Douglas Gibson Books imprint. [1] The title story is a fictional retelling of the life of the 19th century Russian mathematician and writer Sofia Kovalevskaya. The book contains ten short stories. [2]
Thacker, whose “Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives” came out in 2005 — the same year Fremlin was convicted — told the AP that he had long known of Fremlin's abuse but omitted it from his book ...
Lives of Girls and Women is a novel by Nobel Prize–winning Canadian author Alice Munro, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 1971. [1] [2] Although described and marketed as a novel, in form it resembles a collection of interlinked short stories, with discrete chapters narrated by the main character, Del Jordan.