35. Interview Peter D’Angelo, October 3, 2003. DG to AM, February 4, 1976: 37.2.20.6. The McGregors: Gibson to AM, April 21, 1977: Macmillan Canada Archive. Toivo Kiil to AM, March 7, 1975: 37.2.25.6.
36. AM to Audrey Thomas, March 3, 1974: Audrey Thomas Papers 3: 6. Stan Dragland, “Alice Munro at the University of Western Ontario.” Unpublished memoir. July 1, 2003. John Metcalf Fonds, 24.20: passim. Letter James Reaney, March 24, 2003. E-mail Mary Swan, February 24, 2004. Interview Leo Simpson, August 20, 2004.
37. Interview Gerald Fremlin, August 4, 2004. AM, August 22, 2001. John Metcalf Fonds, 24.20: passim. AM to DG, September 16, 1975: Macmillan of Canada Archive. AM to Audrey Thomas, March 20, 1975: Audrey Thomas Papers 3: 6.
Chapter 6
1. Alice Quinn to VB, July 7, 1977: 37.2.47.15c. “Who Do You Think You Are.” Advance proof of supplanted Who Do You Think You Are? (August 11, 1978): 229. John and Myrna Metcalf Collection: item 6000. Menaker quotation: CM to VB, February 28, 1977: 37.2.47.6b. “Privilege,” “Royal Beatings,” Who: 36–37, 5. “The Ottawa Valley,” Something: 246. “Introduction,” Selected Stories: xv–xvi.
2. “Places at Home”: 37.13.10.1–4, 13. Lives: 253. “Names”: 37.13.9.4. “Churches and Lodges”: 37.13.10.13. “Kill a Chicken”: 37.13.10.17.
3. “Places at Home”: 37.13.10.5–8, 11–12, 14–19.
4. “Notes on Mame Pinning” (April 19, 1975): 37.9.18. AM identified this as Fremlin’s writing, April 23, 2004. “Visitors” in “Places at Home”: 37.13.11.f25–26. AM to DG, September 16, 1975: Macmillan: 429: 4.
5. AM to DG, n.d. [July–August 1975?], September 16, December 30, 1975: Macmillan: 429: 4. DG to AM, July 22, 1975: Macmillan: 429: 4, October 9, 1975: 37.2.20.4, December 23, 1975: 37.2.20.5. Interview Peter D’Angelo, October 3, 2003.
6. Lives: 246–47. “Clues,” “Places at Home”: 37.13.10.23.f1–2.
7. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. AM to DG, December 30, 1975, March 6, 1976, DG to AM, July 22, 1975, March 10, 1976: Macmillan: 429: 4. DG to AM, February 4, 1976: 37.2.20.
8. AM, June 20, 2003. “Places at Home” title sheet: 37.12.23.2.
9. AM, April 23, 2004. Notes on Treatment: 37.20.3.3. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. AM, August 5, 2004.
10. “The Stories of Alice Munro” (carbon of original submission): 2. Correspondence January–May 1968: Hugh Garner Fonds, Queen’s University. Interview Margaret Atwood, January 27, 2004. Phoebe Larmore to Toivo Kiil, December 22, 1975. VB to Toivo Kiil, January 23, 1976: Private collection. Interview Toivo Kiil, October 12, 2004.
11. Blaise: VB to AM, March 14, 1977: 37.2.47.7, March 11, March 22, 1976: 37.2.47.2–3. Interview VB, January 14, 2003.
12. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. Leslie Peterson, “Nothing to Tell Us.”
13. “Alice Laidlaw Munro”: 113. D.C. Williams to AM, February 12, 1976: 37.2.45. “Seven to Receive Honorary Degrees” [London Free Press? n.d.]: 37.20.22. Order of Canada: AM, June 19, 2003.
14. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. “Robert Laidlaw Dies in London”: Wingham Advance-Times, August 19, 1976: 10. AM, August 22, 2001. Sheila Munro quotes these letters from Laidlaw to Munro, Lives of Mothers and Daughters: 223, 114. Ellipsis in original. 396/87.3: 3.4.
15. Struthers interview: 21. “Miles City, Montana,” Progress: 93, 94. Who: 5. CM to VB, December 13, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13.
16. Interview James Munro, July 9, 2002. VB to AM, October 4, 1976, October 19, 1976. November 1, [1976]: 38.2.63.2–4. Interview CM, January 14, 2003. E-mail Daniel Menaker, August 10, 2003.
17. The New Yorker, Ross, and Shawn have a considerable literature surrounding them. In understanding the magazine’s history and personalities, books by Bodsford, Gill, Kunkel, Mehta, and Yagoda are useful to varying degrees. There are also numerous articles, particularly connected with Shawn’s dismissal in 1987. Throughout this writing, Shawn’s motives, mien, and significance are continual questions.
18. Interview CM, January 14, 2003. CM to VB, November 17, 1976: 38.2.63.6. VB to AM, November 17, 1976: 37.2.47.3. CM to AM, November 18, 1976: 37.2.30.1. Munro received just under $3,300 for “Royal Beatings”: VB to AM, January 27, 1977: 38.2.63.8.
19. CM to AM, January 11, 1977: 37.2.30.3. Interview VB, January 14, 2003. CM to VB, February 28, 1977: 37.2.47.6b, December 21, 1976: 37.2.47.4.
20. VB to AM, March 2, 1977: 37.2.47.6a, March 22, 1977: 37.2.47.8. Kate Medina to VB, March 8, 1977: 37.2.47.8. Gordon Lish to Mary Evans, May 13, 1977: 37.2.47.11. Anne Mollegen Smith to VB, April 6, 1977: 37.2.47.10. VB to AM, June 15, 1977: 37.2.47.13.
21. Alice Quinn to VB, July 7, 1977: 37.2.47.15c.
22. VB to AM, December 12, 1977: 38.2.63.9. CM to AM, December 8, 1977: New Yorker files (NYPL): 897:12.
23. “Who Do You Think You Are?” Advance proof of supplanted Who Do You Think You Are? (August 11, 1978): 229. John and Myrna Metcalf Collection: item 6000. Living with the man’s mother: 37.19.63. AM, April 24, 2004. CM to AM, August 3, 1977: 37.2.30.4. Four-part “Simon’s Luck”: 37.11.20. CM to VB, December 5, 1977: 38.2.63.9. CM to VB, April 12, 1978: New Yorker (NYPL): 907:5. Shift to first person: 38.3.21.
24. John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20. William French, “Richler and Munro Are Alive and Well Between Books”: 15.
25. “Munro Awarded Literary Prize,” Globe and Mail, January 23, 1977: 13.
26. “Novelist Fights Book Banning,” Montreal Star, May 25, 1978: B11. AM to Margaret Laurence, February 23, 1976: Margaret Laurence Fonds: 1980–001/008 (098). “Writer Uses Bible to Thwart Banning of Books,” Globe and Mail, June 14, 1978: 9. Turnberry Township: “Drive to Ban Books ‘Like Nazi Censorship,’ ” London Free Press, May 27, 1978: D1. William French, “The Good Book Versus Good Books”: 16. Jeff Seddon, “Book Debate Attracts 500 to CHSS,” Clinton News-Record, June 15, 1978: 1. Munro speech text: 38.12.33.1.f2–4. “Ultimately”: Carol Off, “Munro Speaks Out On Rights,” [UWO] Gazette, January 13, 1979. AM to Margaret Laurence, July 16, 1978: Margaret Laurence Fonds: 1980–001/008 (098). See also Paul Stuewe, “Better Dead Than Read”: 3–7, and Timothy Findley, “Better Dead Than Read? An Opposing View”: 3–5. Also AM, “On Stuewe and Censorship”: 39–40.
27. “A Concerned Mother of Two Sons” from Clinton to AM, May 23, 1978: 38.2.74.9. Another such letter, also anonymous though from Alberta, is 38.2.74.11. [Barry Wenger,] “A Genius of Sour Grapes”: 3. E-mail Henry Hess (then editor, Wingham Advance-Times) June 14, 2004. Joyce Wayne, “Huron County Blues”: 9.
28. VB to AM, December 12, 1977: 38.2.63.9. VB to Robin Brass, Jack Stoddard, January 20, 1977: 37.2.47.5a–d. VB to Bella Pomer, May 17, 1977: Macmillan 429: 4. John Pearce to VB, July 4, 1977: 37.2.47.15b. Robin Brass to VB, November 16, 1977: 37.2.47.19.
29. VB to AM, October 7, 1977: 37.2.47.18. DG to AM, April 21, 1977, AM to DG, January 22, 1978, DG to AM, February 7, 1978, Robert Stuart to DG, February 23, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4.
30. AM to DG, February 22, 1978, VB to DG, March 8, 1978, Charlotte Weiss to DG, Jan Walter, and Robert Stuart, April 6, 1978, Bill Baker to DG, April 10, 1978, DG to AM, April 25, 1978, VB to DG, May 3, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4.
31. Kate Medina to AM, December 19, 1978: 38.1.35.1. “Knopf, Norton, and Viking”: R.J. Stuart to Herbert K. Schnall (president, New American Library), May 19, 1977: Macmillan 429: 4. Interview Virginia Barber, January 14, 2003. AM to Sherry Huber (two letters), May 19, 1977: 38.2.64.4–5.
32. “Rose and Janet,” Pratt’s Young Woman in a Slip: DG to Rick Miller, May 23, 1978; “exciting”: returned annotated copy. “Who”: AM to DG [n.d. May 1978?] “Disgust and dismay”: DG to Trade Division, May 26, 1978. DG to VB, June 15, 1978. VB to DG, June 9, 1978. “Danby”: DG to W.H. Clarke, August 31, 1978. Macmillan 429: 4.
33. “ ‘Rose and Janet’: Alice Munro’s Metafiction”: 67, 68. See also Linda Leitch: passim, 150–71. Helen Hoy, Interview Sherry Huber: February 22, 1988. [Sherry Huber,] Notes 11 June 1978: 38.2.64.7. AM to Sherry Huber, August 21, 1978: 38.2.64.8. Sherry Huber to AM, August 25, September 12, 1978: 38.2.64.9–10.
Contents: 38.5.4.f5. Shift to past tense: “Royal Beatings”: 38.5.1. “True Enemies”: 38.5.5. “Privilege,” Who: 36–37. [Sherry Huber] Draft Norton flap copy: 38.5.9.f1. AM to Sherry Huber, September 16 and 19, 1978: W.W. Norton.
34. Interview DG, July 3, 2001. DG to Trade Division, Macmillan, September 21, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4. AM to Sherry Huber, September 19, 1978: W.W. Norton. B. Hamilton to DG, September 18, 1978. DG to R.J. Stuart, September 22, 1978. R.J. Stuart to AM, September 22, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4. See also Martin Knelman, “The Past, the Present, and Alice Munro.”
35. DG to VB, October 25, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4. Interview Virginia Barber, January 14, 2003. VB to AM, November 7, 1978: 38.2.63.16. AC to AM, November 13, 1978: 38.1.3.5. DG to AC, DG to Robert Gottlieb, November 22, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4. AC to AM, January 19, 1979: 38.1.3.6. AC to DG, December 11, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4.
36. DG, “Alice Munro.” Reprinting: Jan Walter to Carol McCarthy, January 9, 1979. DG to Linda Taylor (Trade Promotion, Macmillan), August 16, 1978: Macmillan: 429: 4.
37. Wayne Grady, “Alice Through a Glass Darkly”: 15. Who review file: Macmillan: 401:1.
38. Sam Solecki, “Letters in Canada 1978”: 319, 320. Gerald Noonan, rev. of Who: 151. Michael Taylor, rev. of Who: 126, 127.
39. Urjo Kareda, “The War Within Alice Munro’s Heroine”: 62, 63. DG to VB, November 24, 1978: Macmillan 429: 4. Chair: Margaret Laurence to Judith Jones, June 28, 1979: 38.1.3.11. Robert J. Stuart to AM, March 27, 1979: 38.1.75.8. VB to DG, March 5, 1979, February 13, 1979. Australia visit: Paul Myer to DG, April 10, 1979: Macmillan 429: 4.
40. AC to AM, January 19, 1979: 38.1.3.6. AM to AC, January 24, 1979: Private collection. Fact sheet: 38.1.3.8b. Planned Norton cover: Helen Hoy, Interview Sherry Huber: February 22, 1988. “The Beggar Maid,” Who: 77. Linda Xiques, “The Beggar Maid.” The Beggar Maid reviews file (U.S.): 38.7.2.
41. Joyce Carol Oates, “Books”: 72, 74. Ted Morgan, “Writers Who Happen to Be Women”: 78. Thomas R. Edwards, “It’s Love!”: 44. Paul Wilner, “Virtue Wins”: 43. Joanna Higgins, “To Bridge Gulfs and Make Connections”: 29.
42. AC to AM, June 19, 1980: 38.1.3.21. Knopf Royalty Sheet, March 31, 1981: 38.1.3.24.
43. Alan Hollinghurst, “Elapsing Lives”: 830, 831. One of the judges of the 1979 described the group’s work on their decision: Margaret Forster, “Secrets of a Glittering Prize.” The Beggar Maid reviews file (U.K.): 38.7.3. Sales: VB to AM, April 15, 1982: 38.2.63.84. Timothy Findley, “The McGregors.”
Chapter 7
1. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 1. Connection,” Moons: 6–7. “Circle of Prayer,” Progress: 273. David Macfarlane, “Writer in Residence”: 56. DG to AM, September 5, 1980. AM to DG, October 13, 1980. Macmillan: 429: 4. Margaret Smith, “Telling Life as It Is.” Family book: AM, April 24, 2004. CM to AM, November 1, 1977: 37.2.30.5. CM to VB, April 9, 1980: New Yorker (NYPL): 927:17. “Munro bonanza”: CM to VB, December 13, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13.
2. VB to AM, June 24, 1980: 38.2.63.46. VB to AM, March 27, 1980: 38.2.63.43. CM to AM, October 15, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13. David Macfarlane, “Writer in Residence”: 56.
3. Ending cut off and moved to “Connection”: 396/87.3: 4.6. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 2. The Stone in the Field,” “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 1. Connection,” Moons: 35, 18. [Robert Fulford,] “This Month: The Past, the Present, and Alice Munro”: 11.
4. Martin Knelman, “The Past, the Present, and Alice Munro”: 18, 22. CM to VB, December 13, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13. Hilda Kirkwood to AM, February 17, 1981: 38.1.19.2. Elizabeth Spenser to AM, March 18, 1981: 38.2.33.
5. Alan Twigg, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More – But She’s a Distinguished Visitor.” Province (Vancouver), March 9, 1980: 12. AM to JM, December 31, 1980, October 16, 1981: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.8.9.1–2. “Through the Jade Curtain”: 51, 55.
6. Wayne Grady, “Story Tellers to the World”: 10. [Barry Wenger,] “A Genius of Sour Grapes.” Wenger wrote editorial, general feelings in Wingham about AM: e-mail, Henry Hess (then editor, Wingham Advance-Times) June 14, 2004. Joyce McDougall, “The Truth Behind Alice Munro’s Tales.” AM, “Writer Denies Her Books Were Based on Wingham,” AM, “A Leaven of Alice.” AM, “Distressing Impression.” Barry Wenger to AM, December 21, 1982: 396/87.3:2a.6. “Material,” Something: 43.
7. AM to JM, November 27, 1983: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.8.9.10. John Metcalf, “What Happened to CanLit?” W.P. Kinsella, “CanLit Clique for Metcalf?” AM to JM, August 28, 1987: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20.2.63.
8. Price paid for “Working”: Mary Evans to AM, March 13, 1981: 38.2.63.56. Jack McClelland to AM, July 11, 1980: 38.1.78.7. DG to VB, December 14, 1981, DG to AM, January 11, 1982: Macmillan: 429: 4. VB to AM, January 14, 1981: 38.2.63.73. VB to DG, January 21, 1981: Macmillan: 429: 4.
9. CM to VB, April 10, 1978: New Yorker (NYPL): 907: 5. “Working for a Living”: 396/87.3: 5.11. CM to AM, January 9, [1978]: 38.2.4.1. “Taking Chances”: 37.14.14. “Simon’s Luck”: 37.11.20. AM, April 29, 1987. In May 1995 I met and talked to this woman on Grand Manan. CM to AM, September 17, 1980: 396/87.3: 2.13. See also my “Alice Munro’s Willa Cather.”
10. Scobie interview: 13. [Joe Radford,] “Eviscerating Poultry: Techniques and Impressions”: 38.9.25. Munro’s notes on different types of wood, with diagrams of cuts in another hand: 38.12.1. CM to AM, June 17, 1980: 38.2.4.8. Interview Charles McGrath, January 14, 2003. “The Turkey Season,” New Yorker galley proofs (June 9, 1980): 38.9.30. Telegrams to legal: CM to AM, December 11, [1980]: 38.2.4.13. A present to our readers: CM to AM, December 1, 1980: 38.2.4.12.
11. Undated titles: 38.9.35. Second “Bardon Bus”: 396/87.3: 4.5. “Ferguson Girls” submissions: Mary Evans to AM, January 12, 1982: 38.2.63.71. Submission: VB to DG, March 18, 1982: Macmillan: 429.2. Confirmation of submissions: VB to AM, March 19, 1982: 38.2.63.79. Ordering: DG to AM, April 6, 1982: 38.1.75.18. Knopf confirmed: AC to AM, May 17, 1982: 38.1.3.27.
12. Changes in contract (DG’s acceptance annotated): VB to DG, April 12, 1982. Macmillan contract for Moons of Jupiter, May 10 [or 11?], 1982; annotation: “Original to AM.” Pratt images: W.E. Smillie to DG, May 10, 1982, DG to Mira Godard, June 2, 1982: Macmillan: 429.2. “Rights,” Quill & Quire November 1982.
13. Publicity tour: Macmillan: 400: 15. Anthology CBC archives. Profiles: Macmillan: 400: 15. Wayne Grady, “A House of Her Own”: 14. Sam Solecki, “Lives of Girls and Women”: 24.
14. Urjo Kareda, “Double Vision”: 63, 63–64. John Faustman, “Two Alices”: 64, 63.
15. Cynthia Ozick to AC, March 9, 1983, Bobbie Ann Mason to AC, March 7, 1983: 396/87.3: 1.9. There are also notes here from Hazzard, McDermott, and O’Brien. Patricia Blake, “Heart-Catching”: 71, 73. Ann Hurlbert, “The Country and the City”: 37. Benjamin DeMott, “Domestic Stories”: 1, 26. David Lehman, “When Short Is Beautiful”: 85.
16. “Accident,” “The Moons of Jupiter,” “Hard-Luck Stories,” Moons: 81, 82, 223, 197. “A Perfect Story”: 38.9.2.3. VB to AM, August 24, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.1. “Alice Munro Finds Writing a Struggle,” News (Prince Rupert), May 18, 1983. Also in Cape Breton Post, May 24, 1983. Linda Matchan, “Alice Munro: From the Ontario Hinterland to ‘The Moons of Jupiter.’ ” This was reprinted, at least, in the Montreal Gazette (June 4, 1983) and Vancouver Sun (May 27, 1983). Interview Ann Close, January 15, 2003.
17. VB to AM, August 4, 1980: 38.2.63.49. Knopf Royalty Statement (March 31, 1981): 38.1.3.24. VB to John Diamond, January 17, 1983, VB to AM, January 26, 1983. VB to Martha Clark, November 19, 1982: 396/87.3: 2a.1. VB to AM, September 12, 1983: 396/87.3: 2a.2.
18. VB to DG, December 1, 1983, DG to VB, January 4, 1984, VB to DG, January 12, 1984, VB to AM, February 7, February 27, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.2. Virginia Barber, Text of Remarks at Alice Munro Garden Dedication, July 10, 2002.
19. Specifics for these examples are from correspondence files in the Alice Munro Fonds. Edna O’Brien blurb: Pat Strachan to AM, December 5, 1984: 396/87.3:1.66. CBC profile: Sunday Morning, October 17, 1982. Patri
ck Watson, Gzowski on FM, February 19, 1976. Anne Holloway and DG to AM, July 17 and 18 1984:, 396/87.3: 1.111. AM draft foreword: 396/87.3: 3.3. Eithne Black to AM, August 22, 1984: 396/87.3:1.36. Also Ken Adachi, “Writers Pay Tribute to Beautiful Man.” Toronto Star, October 29, 1984: C3. AM, “On John Metcalf.”
20. “Gold”: 396/87.3: 2.11. Raymond Carver, “Introduction”: xvi. CM to VB, September 26, 1984, VB to AM, October 2, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.1. CM to AM, October 15, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13. VB to AM, September 27, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.1.
21. VB to AM, October 2, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.1. CM to AM, December 26, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13. CM to VB, December 13, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.1. AC to AM, January 10, [1985]: 396/87.3:1.9. CM to AM, November 9, 1984: 396/87.3: 2.13, CM to VB, February 15, 1985: 396/87.3: 2a.1. AM to JM, August 28, 1987: John Metcalf Fonds: 24.20.2.63. Interview Virginia Barber, January 14, 2003.
22. AM, “Introduction”: xiii, xv–xvi. AM, April 24, 2004. Narrator and Hugh: 37.9.9.1. “Shoebox Babies”: 38.11.4. “Miles City”: 396/87.3: 7.3. Scanlon Lake: Interview James Polk, June 8, 2004. “Miles City, Montana,” “The Progress of Love,” Progress: 105, 26, 31. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 2. The Stone in the Field,” Moons: 33.
23. AM to DG, August 22, 1985: Macmillan: 429.3. CM to AM, September 12, 1985: 396/87.3: 2.13. AC to AM, September 20, 1985: 396/87.3:1.9. VB to AM, October 2, 1984: 396/87.3: 2a.1. VB to DG, July 15, 1985: Macmillan: 429:3. AC to AM, July 8, 1985: 396/87.3: 1.9. DG to VB, September 13, 1985, Macmillan contract (receipt stamped December 2, 1985), The Progress of Love, DG to Irene DeClute, December 24, 1985, January 31, 1986: Macmillan: 429.3.
24. AM to DG, November 30, 1985, “Please call Ginger. Urgent”: Telegram AM to DG, February 20, 1986, Linda McKnight to file, February 25, 1986, Linda McKnight to VB, March 4, 1986, VB to Linda McKnight, March 14, 1986, AM to Linda McKnight, March 7, 1986, Linda McKnight to Ron Besse and Arnold Gosewich, April 11, 1986, Peter Waldock to Avie Bennett [n.d. April 15, 1986], Marge Hodgeman to Avie Bennett, Peter Waldock, Jan Walter, Doug Gibson, April 16, 1986, VB to DG, April 17, 1986, Memorandum of Agreement, April 29, 1986, Press release [n.d. April 29, 1986]: Macmillan: 429.3. Ken Adachi, “Munro Follows Publisher Gibson from Macmillan,” Toronto Star, April 30, 1986. Salam Alaton, “CanLit Luminaries Stick with Gibson,” Globe and Mail, May 1, 1986: D5.
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