Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

Are?
(August 11, 1978): 229. John and Myrna Metcalf Collection: item 6000. Menaker quotation: CM to VB , February 28, 1977: 37.2.47.6b. “Privilege,” “Royal Beatings,” Who: 36–37, 5. “The Ottawa Valley,”
Something:
246. “Introduction,”
Selected Stories:
xv–xvi.
    2. “Places at Home”: 37.13.10.1–4, 13.
Lives:
253. “Names”: 37.13.9.4. “Churches and Lodges”: 37.13.10.13. “Kill a Chicken”: 37.13.10.17.
    3. “Places at Home”: 37.13.10.5–8, 11–12, 14–19.
    4. “Notes on Mame Pinning” (April 19, 1975): 37.9.18. AM identified this as Fremlin’s writing, April 23, 2004. “Visitors” in “Places at Home”: 37.13.11.f25–26. AM to DG , September 16, 1975: Macmillan: 429: 4.
    5. AM to DG , n.d. [July–August 1975?], September 16, December 30, 1975: Macmillan: 429: 4. DG to AM , July 22, 1975: Macmillan: 429: 4, October 9, 1975: 37.2.20.4, December 23, 1975: 37.2.20.5. Interview Peter D’Angelo, October 3, 2003.
    6.
Lives:
246–47. “Clues,” “Places at Home”: 37.13.10.23.f1–2.
    7. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. AM to DG , December 30, 1975, March 6, 1976, DG to AM , July 22, 1975, March 10, 1976: Macmillan: 429: 4. DG to AM , February 4, 1976: 37.2.20.
    8. AM , June 20, 2003. “Places at Home” title sheet: 37.12.23.2.
    9. AM , April 23, 2004. Notes on Treatment: 37.20.3.3. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. AM , August 5, 2004.
    10. “The Stories of Alice Munro” (carbon of original submission): 2. Correspondence January–May 1968: Hugh Garner Fonds, Queen’s University. Interview Margaret Atwood, January 27, 2004. Phoebe Larmore to Toivo Kiil, December 22, 1975. VB to Toivo Kiil, January 23, 1976: Private collection. Interview Toivo Kiil, October 12, 2004.
    11. Blaise: VB to AM , March 14, 1977: 37.2.47.7, March 11, March 22, 1976: 37.2.47.2–3. Interview VB , January 14, 2003.
    12. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. Leslie Peterson, “Nothing to Tell Us.”
    13. “Alice Laidlaw Munro”: 113. D.C. Williams to AM , February 12, 1976: 37.2.45. “Seven to Receive Honorary Degrees”
[London Free Press?
n.d.]: 37.20.22. Order of Canada: AM , June 19, 2003.
    14. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. “Robert Laidlaw Dies in London”:
Wingham Advance-Times
, August 19, 1976: 10. AM , August 22, 2001. Sheila Munro quotes these letters from Laidlaw to Munro,
Lives of Mothers and Daughters:
223, 114. Ellipsis in original. 396/87.3: 3.4.
    15. Struthers interview: 21. “Miles City, Montana,”
Progress:
93, 94.
Who:
5. CM to VB , December 13, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13.
    16. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002. VB to AM , October 4, 1976, October 19, 1976. November 1, [1976]: 38.2.63.2–4. Interview CM , January 14, 2003. E-mail Daniel Menaker, August 10, 2003.
    17. The
New Yorker
, Ross, and Shawn have a considerable literature surrounding them. In understanding the magazine’s history and personalities, books by Bodsford, Gill, Kunkel, Mehta, and Yagoda are useful to varying degrees. There are also numerous articles, particularly connected with Shawn’s dismissal in 1987. Throughout this writing, Shawn’s motives, mien, and significance are continual questions.
    18. Interview CM , January 14, 2003. CM to VB , November 17, 1976: 38.2.63.6. VB to AM , November 17, 1976: 37.2.47.3. CM to AM , November 18, 1976: 37.2.30.1. Munro received just under $3,300 for “Royal Beatings”: VB to AM , January 27, 1977: 38.2.63.8.
    19. CM to AM , January 11, 1977: 37.2.30.3. Interview VB , January 14, 2003. CM to VB , February 28, 1977: 37.2.47.6b, December 21, 1976: 37.2.47.4.
    20. VB to AM , March 2, 1977: 37.2.47.6a, March 22, 1977: 37.2.47.8. Kate Medina to VB , March 8, 1977: 37.2.47.8. Gordon Lish to Mary Evans, May 13, 1977: 37.2.47.11. Anne Mollegen Smith to VB , April 6, 1977: 37.2.47.10. VB to AM , June 15, 1977: 37.2.47.13.
    21. Alice Quinn to VB , July 7, 1977: 37.2.47.15c.
    22. VB to AM , December 12, 1977: 38.2.63.9. CM to AM , December 8, 1977:
New Yorker
files ( NYPL ): 897:12.
    23. “Who Do You Think You Are?” Advance proof of supplanted
Who Do You Think You Are?
(August 11, 1978): 229. John and Myrna Metcalf Collection: item 6000. Living with the man’s mother: 37.19.63. AM , April 24, 2004. CM to AM , August 3, 1977: 37.2.30.4. Four-part “Simon’s Luck”: 37.11.20. CM to VB , December 5, 1977: 38.2.63.9. CM to VB , April 12, 1978:
New Yorker
( NYPL ): 907:5. Shift to first person: 38.3.21.
    24. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. William French, “Richler and Munro Are Alive and Well