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3 unusual facts about Alice Munro


Autobiography of Red

It boasts one of the more impressive roster of blurbs you are ever likely to see: full-on gushing from Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Susan Sontag.

Taraneh Alidoosti

A collection of stories by Canadian author Alice Munro collected and translated by Taraneh Alidoosti, was published in 2011.

Thomas Boston

In Alice Munro's short story, No Advantages (The View from Castle Rock 2006), Boston is described briefly.


Away from Her

The feature-length directorial debut of Canadian actress Sarah Polley, the film is based on Alice Munro's short story "The Bear Came over the Mountain", from the 2001 collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

Hateship, Loveship

Hateship, Loveship is a 2013 American drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Mark Poirier, based on a 2001 short story Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro.

How I Met My Husband

"How I Met My Husband" is a short story written by Alice Munro, first published in 1974 as a part of her collection Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You.

Maksim Kovalevsky

He is portrayed as her lover and fiance in the Soviet film "Sofia Kovalevskaya" (1985) and in "Too Much Happiness" (2009), a short story by Alice Munro published in the August 2009 issue of Harper's Magazine.

Marian Engel

From 1965-1985 she corresponded with literary peers and friends such as, Hugh MacLennan, Robertson Davies, Dennis Lee, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Matt Cohen, Robert Weaver, Graeme Gibson and more.

Saleema Nawaz

She cites her biggest short fiction influences as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, and Raymond Carver.

Tamarack Review

Notable writers whose early work was published in Tamarack include Timothy Findley, Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Jay MacPherson and Mordecai Richler.

Zoetrope: All-Story

Steven Millhauser's story "Eisenheim the Illusionist," which inspired Neil Burger's 2006 film The Illusionist, Alice Munro's story "The Bear Came Over The Mountain," which Sarah Polley adapted into the film Away From Her in 2006, and Wes Anderson's screenplay for the short film Hotel Chevalier in Winter 2007 are recent examples of All-Storys Classic Reprint.


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Away from Her

Sarah Polley was on a flight back from working on Hal Hartley's No Such Thing in Iceland when she read the Alice Munro short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" in The New Yorker.

Capture and rescue of Jemima Boone

The incident is notable for inspiring the chase scene in James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans(1826), in which Lieutenant-Colonel George Munro, the book's protagonist Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), his adopted Mohican older brother Chingachgook, Chingachgook's son Uncas, and David Gamut follow and overtake the Huron party of Magua who had taken as captives the sisters Cora and Alice Munro.

ESPN FC

Some regular contributors to ESPN FC include: Uli Hesse, Phil Ball, Derek Rae, Tommy Smyth, Shaka Hislop, Robbie Mustoe, Frank Leboeuf, Gabriele Marcotti, Janusz Michallik, Roberto Gotta, Ernst Bouwes, Dale Johnson, Dom Raynor, John Brewin, Jon Carter, Tayler Willson, Norman Hubbard, Richard Jolly, Alice Munro, Jen Chang, Eduardo Alvarez, Ben Smith, Andy Brassell, Andy Moir, Nick Bidwell,

Jodhi May

Notable roles have included Alice Munro in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, Lea Papin in Sister My Sister, Florence Banner in Tipping the Velvet, Anne Boleyn in the first adaptation of The Other Boleyn Girl, and Sabina Spielrein in the play The Talking Cure.

Schroon, New York

The "Scaroons" is/are mentioned twice in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, as a place seen by Hawkeye (Natty Bumppo), Chingachgook and Uncas after they had departed Horicon (the name used by Cooper for Lake George) while traveling northward chasing Magua and his two captives, Cora and Alice Munro.