She and her husband Jim Munro became friendly with two other couples in the area, Harry and Jessie Webb, who were bohemian artists at 2476 Bellevue Avenue, near the Dundarave pier and editor/writers Stephen and Elsa Franklin who were planning to open the Pick-a-Pocket Bookshop at 2442 Marine Drive. Go over the Lions Gate Bridge from Vancouver, proceed west along Marine Drive to 25th Avenue & Marine, turn right up the hill on 25th, left onto Lawson, proceed one-and-a-half blocks.ĭuring the late 1950s and early 1960s, Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro lived here with two young daughters above Dundarave village. LITERARY LOCATION #2: 2749 Lawson Avenue, West Vancouver. After her first daughter, Sheila, was born in October of 1953, she worked part-time until her next pregnancy in 1955. She worked part-time for VPL until the fall of 1952, then full-time until June of 1953. As outlined in a biography by Robert Thacker, within a month of her arrival in Vancouver in 1952 with her new husband, Jim Munro (who would eventually own and operate Munro's Books in Victoria), Alice Munro got a part-time job at the Kitsilano branch of the Vancouver Public Library. The first Canadian author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Alice Munro, first worked in the Vancouver Public Library prior to becoming an acclaimed short story writer and a mother. LITERARY LOCATION #1: Kitsilano Public Library, 2425 MacDonald St., Vancouver
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