Alice Munro, the Canadian short story writer who lent mythic proportions to the lives of ordinary people from small, rural towns like those in the Ontario countryside where she spent most of her life, has died. She was 92. A spokesperson for the author's publisher confirmed the death of Munro but did not immediately provide further details, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. She had been in frail health since undergoing heart surgery in 2001.
” Born Alice Laidlaw on July 10, 1931, and raised on a fox and mink farm, a failing family business, Munro was the oldest of three children. Her mother, Anne, was a stickler for “pure” and ladylike behavior, which cramped Alice's imagination. Anne Laidlaw developed Parkinson's disease when Alice was 10. Long-term illness only made their strained relationship worse. Alice left home at 17, torn by guilt, and did not return home during the last two years of her mother's life.
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