Munro

Mun·ro  (mn-r), Alice Born 1931.

Canadian writer noted for vivid novels and short stories of life in rural Ontario. Her collections of stories include Dance of the Happy Shades (1968) and Moons of Jupiter (1982).

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Munro, Hector Hugh Pen name Saki  (säk) 1870-1916.

British writer known for his witty and sometimes bitter short stories, published in collections such as The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).

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Munro [mʌnˈrəʊ]

n pl Munros

(Individual Sports & Recreations / Mountaineering) Mountaineering any separate mountain peak over 3000 feet high: originally used of Scotland only but now sometimes extended to other parts of the British Isles

[named after Hugh Thomas Munro (1856-1919), who published a list of these in 1891]

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Munro²

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1. (Biographies / Munro, Alice (1931 M, Canadian, WRITING: short-story writer) Alice, original name Alice Laidlaw. born 1931, Canadian short-story writer; her books include Lives of Girls and Women (1971), The Moons of Jupiter (1982), and The Love of a Good Woman (1999)

2. (Biographies / Munro, H(ector) H(ugh) (1870-1916) M, Scottish, WRITING: short-story writer) H(ector) H(ugh), pen name Saki. 1870-1916, Scottish author, born in Burma (now Myanmar), noted for his collections of satirical short stories, such as Reginald (1904) and Beasts and Superbeasts (1914)

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Munro - British writer of short stories (1870-1916) H. H. Munro, Hector Hugh Munro, Saki