Robert ThackerRobert Thacker is Charles A. Dana Professor of Canadian Studies and English Emeritus at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA. He has been working on 2013 Nobel Laureate Alice Munro since the mid-1970s and is now among the world’s leading Munro critcs. He is author of Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives: A Biography (2005; updated 2011), written with Munro’s cooperation, and Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013 (2016; open access). He edited The Rest of the Story: Critical Essays on Alice Munro (1999) and Alice Munro: Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Runaway; Dear Life (2016) in Bloomsbury’s Studies in Contemporary North American Fiction series. Read More Read Less