The Swedes Tipped Their Hats to a Canajan Author!

“Grattis” to Alice Munro for winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, this year!  I once met a Nobel Prize-winning economist, during an awful winter snow storm. He was the patriarch of our next door neighbor’s family —  when we were mainlanders — and his 18 year old grand-daughter truly deserved a medal, too, for her exceptional kindness and  generosity, when she plodded through the snow and gave us the keys to her snow-ready car, so we could plow through the messy streets and refill our refrigerator.  Emily’s grandfather, Daniel McFadden, won the Nobel Prize in...