Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. She is a writer, known for Julieta (2016), Free Radicals and Runaway. She has been married to Gerald Fremlin since 1976. She was previously married to James Munro (I).
She started writing as a stay-at-home mother with three young daughters. She didn't have the uninterrupted time to devote to a novel, so she wrote short stories.
Her literary inspirations include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Carson McCullers, and Anton Chekhov.
She was the first Canadian to win the Nobel Prize for literature.
Co-founder with James Munro of Munro's Books in Victoria, B.C.
[on learning she had been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature] I am dazed by all the attention and affection that has been coming my way this morning. When I began writing there was a very small community of Canadian writers and little attention was paid by the world. Now Canadian writers are are read, admired and respected around the globe. I'm so thrilled to be this year's recipient [and] hope this brings further recognition to the short story form.