1. She is a Canadian author born July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario.
2. She published her first story, "The Dimensions of a Shadow," while a student at the University of Western Ontario in 1950.
3. Her first story collection, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), won the Governor General's Award, Canada’s highest literary prize.
4. Her collection of related stories, Who Do You Think You Are?, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for a second time.
5. Through the 1980s and 1990s, she published a short-story collection every few years.
6. She has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Man Booker International Prize, and others.
7. Her latest collection, Too Much Happiness, was published in August 2009.
Have you read anything by Alice Munro? What do you recommend?
