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Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw in Wingham, Ontario. Her father, Robert Eric Laidlaw, was a fox and mink farmer, [ 1 ] and later turned to turkey farming. [ 2 ] Her mother, Anne Clarke Laidlaw (née Chamney), was a schoolteacher.
The author recalls the days of school and specifically the relationship with two schoolmates, Dahlia Newcombe and Frances Wainwright. The figures of their fathers are compared with Alice Munro's own father. Dahlia's dad was a violent man who regularly beat his children and wife. Mr. Wainwright was a gentle person belonging to the Salvation Army ...
Munro was born Alice Ann Laidlaw on July 10, 1931 in Wingham, Ontario to Anne Clarke (née Chamney), a schoolteacher, and Robert Eric Laidlaw, a farmer. Munro’s father built their family home, a ...
Laidlaw in 1913. Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw CBE (8 September 1885 – 12 March 1971) was a New Zealand businessman who founded the Farmers Trading Company, one of the largest department store chains in New Zealand. [1] He was also a Christian writer and philanthropist [2] and a well-known lay preacher in the Open Brethren movement.
In a heart-wrenching essay by Andrea Robin Skinner, Munro’s youngest daughter who is now 58 years old—published on Sunday in the Toronto Star alongside a reported companion piece by the paper ...
For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories. A professor of English at McGill University in Montreal ...
Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning short story author known for 'Dear Life,' has died. ... Born Alice Laidlaw on July 10, 1931, and raised on a fox and mink farm, a failing family business ...
Due to her health condition and old age, Alice Munro was not able to personally participate in the award ceremony in Stockholm.Jenny Munro, her daughter, received the diploma, medal and monetary prize from King Carl XVI Gustaf on her behalf on December 10, 2013.