Alice Munro was born July 10 1931, in Wingham, Canada. Munro is a three time winner of Canada's Governor General Award for fiction. Her stories focus on human relationships looked at through the lens of daily life. She is the winner of the 2013 Nobel prize in Literature.
Alice Munro facts - The Nobel Prize
Alice Munro: Riches of a double life - The Guardian
Dance of the happy shades by Alice Munro - a place familiar but lost: The Guardian
Dance of the happy shades: short stories by Munro in Britannica
Alice Munro - ABC Book World