Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

NS11. A. Alvarez, “Life Studies”: 23. Jonathan Franzen, “Alice’s Wonderland”: 1, 14, 15, 16. Lorrie Moore, “Leave Them and Love Them”: 125, 127, 128.
    9. Mary Hawthorne, “Disconnected Realities”: 17, 18. Karl Miller, “Not Bad for a Housewife”: 18. 2004 Rogers Writers’ Trust Citation: M&s. Munro mania in New York: Rebecca Caldwell, “Alice Munro,”
Globe and Mail
, December 27, 2004: R6-7. Trip home with Sheila: AM , April 23, 2004. “Soon,”
Runaway:
124–25. “Originally”: “Soon” mss. “July 30/03”:
New Yorker
Files.
Lives:
254. “A Real Life,”
Open:
80.
Chapter 10
    1. Judy Stoffman, “Making a Short Story Long”: H10. AM , “Maxwell”: 40, 47. AM , “Writing. Or, Giving Up Writing”: 300. “A Conversation with Alice Munro”: www.reading-group-cnter.knopfdoubleday.com/2010/01/08/alice-munro-interview/ . July 16, 2010. “Doubtful”: AM , August 21, 2001. E-mail Charles Baxter, September 10, 2010. AM , “The Novels of William Maxwell”: 31. AM , “Maxwell”: 47.
    2. AM , “Maxwell”: 35. Stoffman, “Making a Short Story Long”: H10. AM , June 14, 2010.
    3. Lorrie Moore, “Leave Them and Love Them”: 128. A revised version of “Home” was published in Britain in the
New Statesman
in late 2001, a fact not noted in the first version of this biography.
    4.
Runaway
sales figures: E-mail Alison Samuel, August 25, 2010; McClelland & Stewart; Interview Ann Close, July 21, 2010.
    5. This book was published concurrently in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, without Everyman’s select bibliography and chronology but with Atwood’s introduction, as
Munro’s Best
. It was published as
Carried Away
by Everyman in Britain in October 2008.
    6. AM , April 24, 2004. “The Mount Honors Women of Achievement.”
The Mount
24 (Winter 2004): 8. “Alice Munro Given Lifetime Achievement Honour.” Cbc.ca, December 3, 2007. “The Tyranny of Library Hierarchy”: http://librarysupporter.blogspot.com/2005/05/tyranny-of-library-hierarchy.html . August 30, 2010. Ben Marcus, “Why Experimental Fiction Threatens to Destroy Publishing, Jonathan Franzen, and Life as We Know It: A Correction.”
Harper’s
, October 2005: 39–52. David Laskin, “Tales of Love and Sorrow in a Singular City: Alice Munro’s Vancouver.”
New York Times
, June 11, 2006: TR 9, 12.
    7. “Alice Munro Given Lifetime Achievement Honour.” Richard Helm, “Literary Icon Alice Munro Expected to Retire Tonight.”
Winnipeg Free Press
, June 20, 2006: D4. Richard Helm, “Editor Insists New Book Won’t Be Munro’s Last.”
Edmonton Journal
, June 22, 2006: D4.
    8. AM to DG , October 13, 1980: Macmillan: 429.3. AM , VB , “2006 Medal Day.”
The MacDowell Colony
25.2 (Winter 2006): 10, 11.
    9. Central Subject: Eleanor Wachtel, “Alice Munro: A Life in Writing: A Conversation”: 278. Munro made the same point when she was interviewed by Deborah Treisman on October 3, 2008. A summary of this interview: www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/festival/2008/10/things-you-may.html . December 3, 2010. Notebook drafts: 38.12.3, 38.10.39.f13. AM , “No Advantages,”
Castle Rock:
6, 7.
    10. Robert Thacker, “A ‘Booming Tender Sadness’: Alice Munro’s Irish.” AM , June 19, 2003. AM , “Meneseteung,”
Friend:
73. Jim Dills and Gloria (Stark) Brown,
Halton’s Scotch Block:
54. AM , “Messenger.”
Castle Rock:
347, 348–49.
    11. AM , “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 1. Connection.”
Moons:
6. Jennifer Rudolph Walsh to Deborah Treisman, March 7, 2005. “Laidlaws II: The View from Castle Rock” (140 pp., dated by AM February 7, 2005). Deborah Treisman to David Remnick, March 24, 2005.
New Yorker
files. AM , “Foreword,”
Castle Rock
: x.
    12. AM , “The Ticket,”
Castle Rock:
258–59, 281, 283, 261, 260. “The Yellow Afternoon”: 37.16.34. f1–11. “The Ticket” was submitted to the
New Yorker
– along with “Dimensions” and “What Do You Want to Know For?”; its editors bought only “Dimensions.” Shannon Firth (assistant to Jennifer Rudolph Walsh) to Deborah Treisman, November 30, 2005.
New Yorker
files.
    13. AM , August 18, 2008. Interview with Treisman at
New Yorker
Festival, October 3, 2008. “Alice Munro Reveals Cancer Fight.” October 22, 2009. www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story /2009/10/22/alice-munro-cancer.html . October 25, 2009.
    14. E-mail Claire Tomalin, August 11, 2010. Megan Hoak ( VB assistant) to DG November 28, 2000.
New Yorker
files.
Courting Johanna
(June 18 – September 6, 2008):