National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Enhance your Book Club experience:
• Read a conversation with Alice Munro
About this guide
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your group’s reading of Alice Munro’s collection The Love of a Good Woman. In these eight stories, a master of the form extends and magnifies [...]
When Alice Munro’s National Book Critics Circle Award-winning short story collection The Love of a Good Woman was published, we had the chance to sit down with her for a chat. The result was a rare glimpse into the mind of a master, as we learned about her influences and her love of the short story form, and even got a bit of writing advice.
(author photo © Derek Shapton)
More >I’d like to share some of the praise-filled reviews for Alice Munro’s short story collection, Too Much Happiness, which have piled up on my desk in an imposing tower of tribute.
More >The Times [UK] have released their “100 Best Books of the Decade” list, and we’re pleased to see how many Knopf titles have made the list, including the number one spot (click through to find out what it is!).
More >Ten superb new stories by one of our most beloved and admired writers—the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize.
More >It was announced last night that Alice Munro is the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize. The prize, which is awarded once every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage, will be presented to Munro at a ceremony at Trinity College in Dublin on June 25. Munro will receive a trophy and a check for £60,000.
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