Alice Munro grew up in Wingham, Ontario, and attended the University of Western Ontario. She has published thirteen collections of stories as well as a novel,ย Lives of Girls and Women,ย and two volumes ofย Selected Stories.ย During her distinguished career she has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including three of Canadaโs Governor Generalโs Literary Awards and two Giller Prizes, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the Lannan Literary Award, Englandโs W. H. Smith Literary Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Man Booker International Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her story โThe Bear Came Over the mountainโ was filmed by Sarah Polley asย Away from Her, and โHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriageโ asย Hateship Loveship. She lives in Port Hope, Canada, on Lake Ontario.
Kimberly Farrย has appeared on Broadway, at the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Roundabout Theatre, Playwright's Horizons, and the American Place.ย She created the role of Eve in Arthur Miller's first and only musical,ย Up from Paradise, which was directed by the author. She appeared with Vanessa Redgrave in the Broadway production ofย The Lady from the Sea. She has also acted in regional theaters from Los Angeles to New Haven, Connecticut, including the original production ofย The 1940's Radio Hourย at Washington, DC's Arena Stage.