Munro achieved stature rare for an art form traditionally placed beneath the novel and was the first lifelong Canadian to win the Nobel Prize.the Canadian literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92.died Monday at home in Port Hope, Ontario.
Her best known fiction included"The Beggar's Maid," a courtship between an insecure young woman and an officious rich boy who becomes her husband;"Corrie," in which a wealthy young woman has an affair with an architect"equipped with a wife and young family"; and"The Moons of Jupiter," about a middle-aged writer who visits her ailing father in a Toronto hospital and shares memories of different parts of their lives.
Moviegoers would become familiar with"The Bear Came Over the Mountain," the improbably seamless tale of a married woman with memory loss who has an affair with a fellow nursing home patient, a story further complicated by her husband's many past infidelities.
One fellow student read “Dimensions” and wrote to the then-Laidlaw, telling her the story reminded him of Chekhov. The student, Gerald Fremlin, would become her second husband. Another fellow student, James Munro, was her first husband. They married in 1951, when she was only 20, and had four children, one of whom died soon after birth.
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