The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it ...

on a night when she was visiting and her mother was away. When she went home, Skinner told her stepmother and stepbrother, who in turn told her father, Jim Munro, Alice Munro’s first husband.

Alice Munro often embarked on what she thought was a novel, only to find that the narrative petered out after about 40 pages. But this hardly mattered, said The New Yorker, because as the citation ...

When the Nobel Prize-winning Canadian author Alice Munro died in May at age 92, her many admirers paid tribute to the subtle construction of her short stories, which often involved the gradual ...

Additional dismay reverberated through the literary world on Tuesday as it came to light that a biographer and others had ...

Ontario on Monday night, her family and her publisher have confirmed. Munro was often compared to Russian writer Anton Chekhov for the insight and compassion found in her stories. "Alice Munro is ...