Additional Resources for Boys and Girls by Alice Munro

Morton, Desmond. A Short History of Canada, Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Inc., 1994.

A history of the Canadian nation first published in 1983, and revised in 1987 and 1994.

Muir, Alexander. From Aberdeen to Ottawa in 1845: The Diary of Alexander Muir, Aberdeen: Aberdeen UP, 1990.

George A. McKenzie is the editor of this selection of diary entries written by a nineteenth-century Scotsman who traveled through the Canadian region before it became the nation it is today.

Munro, Alice. "Working for a Living," in Grand Street, Vol. 1, No. 1, Autumn, 1981, pp. 9-37.

An autobiographical essay.

Struthers, J. R. (Tim). "Alice Munro and the American South," in Here and Now: A Critical Anthology, Vol. 1 of

The Canadian Novel, edited by John Moss, Toronto: NC Press, 1978.

Struthers compares Munro's southern and rural Canadian fiction to the fiction written by Southern United States writers. He develops a correspondence between the two literatures based, in part, on...