Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

Munro’s typewriter “sits in an upstairs room in proximity to domestic necessities such as a washing machine and a sewing machine.” Jan Gould, “Memory, Experiences of ‘Normal Life’ Feed Her Fiction.”
    22. Earle Toppings to AM , March 5, 1968, January 15, 1968 (two letters). AM to Audrey Coffin, March 27, 1968 (transcript): Private collection.
    23. Georgeanna [Hamilton] to Hugh Garner, March 13, 1968. Robin M. Farr to Georgeanna Hamilton, March 13, 1968. Audrey Coffin to Hugh Garner, March 28, March 29, April 4, May 10, 1968. Hugh Garner to Audrey Coffin, May 11, 1968. “The Stories of Alice Munro” (carbon of original submission). Correspondence, January–May 1968: Hugh Garner Fonds, Queen’s University.
    24. AM to Audrey Coffin, April 3, 1968 (transcript). Earle Toppings to Audrey Coffin, April 8, 1968. Here Toppings comments on “Images,” which he has read in manuscript, Garner’s foreword, and approves the idea of having Robert Weaver write the blurb for the back of the dust jacket. He also makes suggestions as to the book’s design, and how to handle the designer. Earle Toppings to Audrey Coffin, April 10, 1968, transcript copy: Private collection. Here he advocates
Dance of the Happy Shades
over
Walker Brothers Cowboy
for the book’s title. Date of publication: Frank Flemington to Hugh Garner, September 24, 1968. Correspondence, June–December 1968: Hugh Garner Fonds, Queen’s University.
    25. E-mail George Cuomo January 31, interview February 3, 2004. “My almost only”: 396/87.3: 6.6. This is an earlier draft of “On John Metcalf: Taking Writing Seriously,” where the passage has become “A creative writing teacher at the University of Victoria had told me that I wrote the kind of things he used to write when he was fifteen” (6). Russell did not join the faculty until after this incident. Sheila Munro,
Lives of Mothers and Daughters:
191. AM , April 23, 2004. E-mail Lawrence Russell, August 13, 2003.
    26. Advertisement for
Dance of the Happy Shades
, one of “the Ryerson Collection of Fine Canadian Books,”
Globe and Mail, Globe Magazine
, n.d. [1968]. Dorothy Bishop, “A Novel of the Week.” Kent Thompson, radio script review of
Dance of the Happy Shades
by Alice Munro, CBZ Fredericton. Leo Simpson, radio script review of
Dance
and
Miracle at Indian River
by Alden Nowlan.
Anthology
. All items 37.7.18.
    27. All reviews 37.7.18.
    28. Hilda Kirkwood, rev. of
Dance:
260. Kent Thompson,
Fiddlehead
rev. of
Dance:
71. Audrey Thomas, “ ‘She’s Only a Girl,’ He Said”: 91, 92. David Helwig, “Canadian Letters”: 128. Beth Harvor, “The Special World of the WW’s”: 3.
    29. Robin Farr to AM , March 18, 1969 and advance press release on Governor General’s Award nominees (March 18, 1969) by Gerald Taaffe and Mario Lavoie: 37.2.39.4. John Peter: 126. AM , April 23, 2004. “Literary Fame Catches City Mother Unprepared.”
Victoria Daily Times
, April 22, 1969. William French, “The Establishment Beware! These Awards Are With It.”
Globe and Mail
, April 22, 1969: 13. “B. C. Mother of Three Wins Top Literary Award.”
Vancouver Sun:
1, 13. “Victoria Woman’s Book Wins Literary Award.”
Victoria Daily Colonist
, April 22, 1969: 1–2. “Ex-Wingham Resident Wins Literary Award.”
London Free Press
, April 22, 1969. Newspaper stories 37.20.22. “Oakville Wife Wins Literary Prize”: 709/01.15:5.1. Mrs. P. Schwantje to AM , April 23, 1969: 37.2.55.4.
    30. William French, “Leonard Cohen Wants to Be Governor-General.”
Globe and Mail
, May 17, 1969: 25. Mordecai Richler, “A Little Noblesse Oblige Goes a Long Way at the Top.”
Victoria Daily Times
, June 21, 1969: 5. Interview Robert Weaver, July 3, 2001. Connolly, Freake, Sherman interview: 10.
    31. Toppings interview. Jan Gould, “Memory, Experiences of ‘Normal Life’ Feed Her Fiction”: 37.20.22. AM , August 5, 2004. “Woman Author Wins Award.”
Toronto Star
, February 3, 1973: 37.20.22. This was a Canadian Press story, so it was syndicated. Munro mentioned this incident often in interviews.
    32. Interview John Metcalf, June 17, 2002. AM , “On John Metcalf”: 6.
    33. “Author’s Commentary”: 126. “The Colonel’s Hash Resettled”: 183.
    34. E-mails Audrey Thomas, August 1 and 2, 2004. Interview Margaret Atwood, January 27, 2004. Phoebe Larmore to Toivo Kiil, December 22, 1975: Private collection.
    35. John Morgan Gray, “Canadian Books,” Earle Birney, “Canadian Publishing,” in