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The signed title page of Alice Munro’s 1986 short story collection, “The Progress of Love.” Publisher Douglas Gibson, whose name appears on the page, encouraged Munro to continue writing short stories despite commercial pressure to produce novels. When told that Munro had won the Nobel Prize, Gibson reported that he was “walking on air.”

The signed title page of Alice Munro’s 1986 short story collection, “The Progress of Love.” Publisher Douglas Gibson, whose name appears on the page, encouraged Munro to continue writing short stories despite commercial pressure to produce novels. When told that Munro had won the Nobel Prize, Gibson reported that he was “walking on air.”