She married James Munro in 1951, and they moved to Vancouver, where she would begin to write from personal experience about intimate family relationships and the struggles of women and girls. She would later write that she began to understand the double life she was leading, as though she were living “two completely different lives-the real and absolutely solitary life and the life of appearances.”
When she published her first short story in 1950, “The Dimensions of a Shadow,” those who knew her wondered at the discrepancy between the person they knew and the darker vision of her narrative. Though the family was not wealthy, Alice excelled academically, earning a scholarship to the University of Western Ontario. When she was twelve, her mother developed Parkinson's disease, which debilitated her until her death in 1959 witnessing her mother's decline would be an experience that Munro would later draw from in much of her fiction. Up in an area that was neither entirely rural nor entirely urban, a location that resembles many of the ambiguous settings of her stories. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHYĪlice Munro was born July 10, 1931, to Ann Clarke and Robert Eric Laidlaw, a farming couple from Wingham, Ontario, Canada. Many of the endings are delightfully or unsettlingly ambiguous, depending on what readers are seeking. Each of her stories spans several generations, and she has a remarkable talent for jumping across several decades without losing the narrative thread. Rather than pursuing her topic relentlessly, though, Munro represents it indirectly, while at the same time exploring the nuances of complex relationships, the way in which a moment can change peoples' lives forever, and the paradoxical sense of looking back on one's life with both regret and contentment.
In each of the stories, however, there are either characters who are running from something or someone, or characters who miss one who has left.
While three of the stories are connected by the same protagonist, the rest of the stories seem at first disconnected, united only in their common location of Western Canada. No lessons ever!” In Runaway, Munro explores the circumstances and consequences of running away, but does so without judgment, and without resolution. When asked in an interview in 1982 whether she has tried to teach anything in her stories, Alice Munro replied, “Ahhh! No lessons.
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