On Thursday, Alice Munro became the 110th winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and only the 13th woman to win the award in more than a century. The Canadian writer was hailed by the Swedish ...

Sign up to receive our weekly cultural-recommendations newsletter. In an essay published earlier this month, Andrea Skinner, the daughter of the lauded writer Alice ...

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Before winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Canadian short story master Alice Munro announced her retirement in an interview with Mark Medley of Canada’s National Post. “When you’re my age,” Munro ...

Munro was the acclaimed author of short story collections like ‘The Love of a Good Woman’ and ‘Dear Life’ Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print ...

“I am a writer or used to be a writer,” Alice Munro wrote in 2014, in one of the last stories she tried to compose. A year earlier, she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. But she had Alzheimer’s ...

If you lived wholly online and never talked to real people, you’d imagine there are only two camps: Those who can forgive any artist’s sins and take the art on its own terms as if it were shot from ...

Just over a decade ago, when James Wood wrote about four memoirs by the children of writers, I wondered why he’d left out Sheila Munro’s Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing Up With Alice Munro (2001 ...