Alice Munro, Canadian Nobel Prize-Winning Author, Dead at 92

OTTAWA—Nobel Prize-winning Canadian writer Alice Munro has died at the age of 92, her publisher said on May 14. Ms. Munro had died at her home in Port Hope, Ontario, said Kristin Cochrane, chief executive officer of McClelland & Stewart. “Alice’s writing inspired countless writers … and her work leaves an indelible mark on our literary landscape,” she said in a statement. Ms. Munro published more than a dozen collections of short stories and was honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. She was the second Canadian-born writer to win the Nobel literature prize but the first with a distinctly Canadian identity. Saul Bellow, who won in 1976, was born in Quebec but raised in Chicago and was widely seen as an American writer....