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Alice Munro was born in 1931 in Wingham, Ontario. After attending the University of Western Ontario, she moved to the west coast. She now lives in Clinton, Ontario. Her short stories have been read on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and published in many anthologies. She publishes in a variety of Canadian and American magazines, including regular contributions to the New Yorker. This highly gifted writer won the Governor General's Award for her 1968 collection of short stories Dance of the Happy Shades. In 1972, her Lives of Girls and Women was winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association International Book Year Award, and a section of this novel was produced in the CBC Performance series. In 1977, she was the first Canadian to be awarded the Canada-Australia Literary Prize. Her other publications include Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You (1974) and Who Do You Think You Are? (1978), the latter winning for Munro her second Governor General's Award.

Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Manitoba, Oct. 24-26, 1996.

Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Sharon Pollock has established a strong reputation across the country as an actor, a playwright, and a director. Best known for such plays as Walsh, The Komagata Maru Incident, and Blood Relations, Pollock has been associated mainly with the theatres of western Canada, particularly with Theatre Calgary, but her two Governor General's Awards testify to her strong national reputation. The Sharon Pollock Papers depict the growth and development of this outstanding dramatist, as well as providing a rich source for the study of Canadian drama in general. The papers are introduced with an exhaustive and scholarly biocritical essay by Professor Denis Salter of McGill University, and constitute a major addition to the Canadian Archival Series.