And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?

They have since moved from the farm to a house in the town of Clinton. ) For The Love of a Good Woman
Giller Prize (1998 and 2004)
Rea Award for the Short Story (2001) given to a living American or Canadian author. In 1966 their daughter Andrea was born.

The locus of Munro’s fiction is her native southwestern Ontario. Her "accessible moving stories" explore human complexities in a seemingly effortless style. Munro's writing has establiAlice Munrod her as "one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction" or as Cynthia Ozick put it "our Chekhov.