Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

1986, VB to Linda McKnight, March 14, 1986, AM to Linda McKnight, March 7, 1986, Linda McKnight to Ron Besse and Arnold Gosewich, April 11, 1986, Peter Waldock to Avie Bennett [n.d. April 15, 1986], Marge Hodgeman to Avie Bennett, Peter Waldock, Jan Walter, Doug Gibson, April 16, 1986, VB to DG , April 17, 1986, Memorandum of Agreement, April 29, 1986, Press release [n.d. April 29, 1986]: Macmillan: 429.3. Ken Adachi, “Munro Follows Publisher Gibson from Macmillan,”
Toronto Star
, April 30, 1986. Salam Alaton, “CanLit Luminaries Stick with Gibson,”
Globe and Mail
, May 1, 1986: D5.
    25. Galleys: Invoice, Crane Duplicating Service, Barnstable, MA: M&S. Knopf author’s proof: 396/87.3: 14.1. Penguin: Peter Waldock to Ann Nelles, August 21, 1986, DG to AM , August 27, 1986, DG to VB , August 27, 1986: M&s. “Distinguished”: Ken Adachi, “Alice Munro Honored with First Marian Engel Award,”
Toronto Star
, October 21, 1986: Hi. “Hometown”: VB to DG , September 16, 1986: M&s. AM to JM [n.d. received November 6, 1986: JM ], AM to JM , November 21, 1986: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.8.9.19, 24.8.9.21. “Accident,”
Moons:
109.
    26. Beverly Slopen, “Alice Munro’s Audience Grows,”
Toronto Star
, August 3, 1986. “Darling”: Sumi. “Not doing anything
new”:
“Writer’s Writers”: 10.
    27. Beverly Slopen, “PW Interviews Alice Munro”: 76. Joyce Carol Oates, “Characters Dangerously Like Us”: 7, 9. Anne Tyler, “Canadian Club”: 54.“Size reported”: Ken Adachi, “J.D. Salinger’s Biography Too Tame to Cause Ripples,”
Toronto Star
, February 2, 1987: D2.
    28.
Book-of-the-Month Club News
November 1986: 1–4. “Editor’s Choice: Best Books of 1986,”
New York Times Book Review
, December 7, 1986: 3, 37, 40. “Atwood and Munro Touted by Times,”
Globe and Mail
, December 8, 1986: D9. M&S Royalty statement: May 1, 1987 (July–December 1986). Lisa Rochon, “Munro Wins Top Literary Prize,”
Globe and Mail
, May 28, 1987: D1. David Macfarlane, “Writer in Residence”: 56.
    29. Norman Mailer to AM , April 22, 1985, Karen Kennerly (P.E.N. International) to AM , April 22, 1985: 396/87.3: 2.27.
    30. Judith Timson, “Merciful Light”: 66. “CBC Radio Asks Robert Weaver to Retire Early,”
Globe and Mail
, January 17, 1985: Ei. AM to JM , March 24, 1985, March 28, 1988: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.8.9.13, 22. “The Ottawa Valley,”
Something:
246. “Friend of My Youth,”
Friend:
3, 26.
    31. AM , “Contributors Notes,”
Best American Short Stories 1989:
322. Here Munro mentions Clinton’s “Miss Mountcastle” and Goderich’s “Sweet Songstress of Le Mer Douce.” See Nerissa Arch McInnes, “The Clever Mountcastle Family,” Godard, and “Eloise Skimings.” Joynt:
Wingham Advance-Times
, March 10, 1938: 2. “Meneseteung” typescript: 396/87.3:3.2. “Meneseteung” Knopf setting text: 396/87.3: 3.4. “Meneseteung,”
Friend:
73, 68–69, 70. “Circle of Prayer,”
Progress:
273.
    32. DG to Kelly Hechler, Janet Heisey, Bill Hushion, Don Sedgwick, December 8, 1989: M&S. D.J.R. Bruckner, “An Author Travels to Nurture Ideas About Home.” Harbourfront: Kelly Heckler to AM , February 14, 1990. Mary Pratt’s
Wedding Dress:
DG to file, January 5, 1990. Sales figures: DG to Bill Hushion, Lynn Shannon, July 19, 1990. DG to Alison Samuel, June 6, 1990: M&S.
    33. M&S ad:
Globe and Mail
, April 28, 1990: C8. Bharati Mukherjee, “Hometown Horrors”: 1, 31. Malcolm Jones, Jr., “The Glory of the Story”: 56, 57. Philip Marchand, “Telling Stories”: M13. Mary Jo Salter, “In Praise of Accidents”: 51, 52, 53. Robert Towers, “Short Satisfactions”: 38. Maria Russo, “Final Chapter”: 34. Carol Shields, “In Ontario”: 22, 23.
Chapter 8
    1. “Carried Away,”
Open:
50. “What Do You Want to Know For?”: 220. Ozick, “A Short Note on ‘Chekhovian’ ”: 88, 89. E-mail AC , December 16, 2004. Diane Turbide, “The Incomparable Storyteller”: 46, 47. Trillium Award: “Munro Honoured,”
Globe and Mail
, August 28, 1991: A11. Air Lingus: DG to Kelly Hechler, September 7, 1990: M&S. Molson: “Cultural Award Winner,”
Toronto Star
, April 4, 1991: A4. Commonwealth: DG to AM , November 7, 1991. W.H. Smith: DG to AM , January 11, 1995: M&S. “Lannan Gives 10 Writers $500K,”
Publishers Weekly
, September 25, 1995: 10.
    2. AM to JM , March 28, 1988: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.8.9.22. Daniel Menaker, “Authors! Authors!”: 117.
New Yorker
, June 27, July 4, 1994:
passim
.