Read Her Like an Open Book

Read Her Like an Open Book

Fifteen writers pay tribute to Alice Munro, the queen of short stories

The passing of the great Canadian writer inspired an outpouring of love and gratitude.

Bill Wolfe
May 26, 2024
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The literary world lost one of its most important and influential writers on May 13 when Alice Munro, who wrote only short stories from the late 1960s until her final collection, Dear Life, in 2013, passed away at the age of 92. There is no praise that was not heaped on her work during her long, productive life, culminating in the Nobel Prize in Literat…

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