Alice Munro Biography

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NAME: Alice Munro
OCCUPATION: Author
BIRTH DATE: July 10, 1931 (Age: 81)
EDUCATION: University of Western Ontario
PLACE OF BIRTH: Wingham, Canada
Maiden Name: Alice Anne Laidlaw
ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

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Alice Munro is a critically well-regarded Canadian short-story writer. She won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009.

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Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario, Canada. She attended the University of Western Ontario and, after two years, left school and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia. Her first collection of stories was published as Dance of the Happy Shades. In 2009 Munro won the Man Booker International Prize; that same year she published the short-story collection Too Much Happiness.

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