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  Alice Munro (b. 1931) LINKS Northwest Passages: Canadian Literature Online: Authors: Alice Munro http://www.nwpassages.com/bios/Munro1.asp "Northwest Passages Online" provides the visitor with a short biography of the amiable author from birth to her latest publications, a bibliography of books (a short list), and articles (an extensive list of invaluable resources) about the works of Alice Munro.
Alice Munro Page
Fred AverickÕs Unofficial Alice Munro Page is an excellent place to begin researching the author. There are many good resources including recent news and updates, four RealAudio bits of interviews and readings by the author, a large list of links, a bibliography, and many reviews of her work.
Alice Munro: "Boys and Girls"
An excellent page where you can read a short essay of MunroÕs titled "Boys and Girls" (1968), and access another good example of the authorÕs type of narrationÑthrough an amazing and remarkably touching essay about growing up with foxes. The Antigonish Review: An Inner Bell That Rings: Alice Munrohttp://www.antigonish.com/review/115/miller.html
Visit this site to read an in-depth and revealing academic paper that analyzes the intent of the author, as written by Judith Maclean Miller. Pay careful attention to MacleanÕs research into MunroÕs readership, her craft, and her successes and failures in writing. This is a good place to begin advanced research into the secret behind MunroÕs prowess as a writer. Reading Group Center: A Conversation With Alice Munrohttp://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/read/secrets/munro.html
Here youÕll find a candid interview with the author, in which Munro engages in an open discussion about her approach to writing. Munroe gives advice and guidance regarding the choosing of forms (short story or novel), generating ideas, providing a few of her influences, and the impact memory had on her works. BIOGRAPHYAlice Munro (b. 1931) was born in Wingham, Ontario to a family of small farmers. She received her B.A. from the University of Western Ontario. Her first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades (1968), showed Munro's mastery of the short story format and won the Governor General's Literary Award. Her next publication, her only novel, The Lives of Girls and Women (1973) won the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award. She won two more Governor General's Literary Awards for The Beggar Maid (1978) and The Progress of Love (1986), and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for The Love of a Good Woman (1998). 
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