Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

“Publishing in Canada,”
Canadian Literature:
27, 12. My “Gazing Through the One-Way Mirror” develops these contexts as they affect Canadian literature in more detail; see also MacSkimming and, for a contemporary assessment of book publishing, Robert Weaver’s “Books.”
    36. Peter Sypnowich, “It Was a Sad, Sad Day for Ryerson Press Staff,”
Toronto Star
, November 3, 1970: 34. George Parker, “Sale of Ryerson Press”: 29. “McGraw-Hill Takes Over Ryerson,”
Quill & Quire
, December 11, 1970: 1.
    37. AM to Earle Toppings, November 24, December 16, 1970. Audrey Coffin to Earle Toppings [January 1970]: Private collection.
    38. Margaret Laurence to Audrey Coffin, December 30, 1968: Private collection. Margaret Laurence to Judith Jones, February 10, 1969. Also Laurence to Jones, February 25, March 8, and July 19, 1969. Jones toLaurence, February 19, 1969. Alfred A. Knopf Archive. E-mail Judith Jones, May 3, 2004.
    39. “On Writing ‘The Office’ ”: 261. AM , August 5, 2004. AM to Audrey Coffin, October 22, 1970: Private Collection. AM to Audrey Coffin, December 10 and 22, 1970: 396/87.3: 1.119. Audrey Coffin to AM , December 14, 1970: 37.2.24.1.
    40.
Lives:
[iv, vii]. Tausky interview. 37.4.40–41. 396/87.3: 1.119. Struthers interview: 25. Tausky, “ ‘What Happened to Marion?’.”
    41. Miss Musgrave: 37.4.22. “Walker Brothers Cowboy” and
Lives:
37.3.12. 396/87.3: 1.119. Tausky interview.
Lives:
253.
    42. 374.17.f4. Interview Toivo Kiil, January 7, 2003. Toivo Kiil to AM , March 10 and 23, 1971: 37.2.24.2-3. VB to John Diamond, January 17, 1983: 396/87.3: 2a.1. All materials connected with the production of
Lives
and
Something I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You
at McGraw-Hill Ryerson, including contracts, appear to have been destroyed by the firm.
    43. E.D. Ward-Harris, rev. of
Lives
. Quoted from ad
Victoria Daily Times
December 11, 1971: 23. 37.5.14.
    44. Irene Howard, “An Elegant Look at the World of Women”: 23. 37.5.14. Clara Thomas, “Woman Invincible”: 96. James Polk, “Deep Caves Paved with Kitchen Linoleum”: 102–04.
    45. “Alice Munro Wins CBA Award”: 8. Bryan L. Bacon (British Columbia Library Association) to AM , September 29, 1972: 37.2.6. Toivo Kiil to AM , October 13, and November 13, 1972: 37.2.25.1–2.
Chapter 5
    1.
Lives:
240. Connolly, Freake, Sherman interview: 8. “Soon,”
Runaway:
87, 88. In between these two instances, Munro also used Chagall’s
I and the Village
in draft material connected to
Lives
; as in “Soon,” a print of it is a character’s present to her mother: 37.4.40.1. “Funorama”: 38.11.5. AM , August 5, 2004. “The Author,”
Dance
dust-jacket flap.
    2. Sheila Munro,
Lives:
199, 201. Interview James Polk, June 8, 2004.
    3. Ross,
Alice Munro:
64. Sheila Munro,
Lives:
82–84. AM , June 20, 2003.
    4. AM , June 20, 2003. “Jakarta,”
Love
. Sheila Munro,
Lives:
208–9, 83, 84, 219–20, 82. AM , April 23, 2004.
    5. “Material,”
Something:
42, 35, 43. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 1. Connection,”
Moons:
18. “Miles City, Montana,”
Progress:
91–92.
    6. AM to JM , November 26, 1969, June 11, 1971, John Metcalf Fonds: 24.24.1.5, 24.21.10.28. AM , April 23, 2004. AM to Marian Engel, August 29, 1984, Marian Engel Fonds: 31.67.
    7. AM to Earle Toppings, June 8, July 26, August 31, September 12, 1972. Earle Toppings to AM , July 11, 1972: Private collection. He “looked bad enough”: 12 September.
    8. Ross,
Alice Munro:
75. Thomas, “Initram.” AM , April 23, 2004.
    9. RW to AM , November 27, [1971 or ’72?]: 37.1.29. Earle Toppings to AM , March 5, 1968: Private collection. AM to JM , February 5, 1973, John Metcalf Fonds: 24.13.32.17. 1973 income tax return: 38.2.75. RW to AM , April 18, 1973: 37.2.8.11.
    10. JM to Desmond [Pacey], March 6, 1973: 24.13.32.25. AM to JM , January 15, February 5, August 12, 1973. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.13.32.12-13, 87.
    11. Interview Margaret Atwood, January 27, 2004. Details of teaching appointment: L.A.D. Morey to AM , March 6, April 2, 1973: 37.2.33.1-2. E.D. Baravale to AM , May 4, 1973: 37.2.33.3.
    12. “Creative Writing”: 37.19.27.3, 10, 8. “Eternal Springs” is the version of the story in which the husband teaches at the college: 37.14.46. “Red Dress – 1946,”
Dance:
160. AM , April 23, 2004.
    13. D.R. Ewen to AM , January 18, 1974: 37.2.52. E-mail Mary Swan, February 24, 2004. AM , June 20, 2003.
    14. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.48.17.f23. The version in
New Canadian Stories
is