Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant was born in Montreal in 1922. When she was twenty-eight she gave up her job as a journalist, moved to Paris and devoted herself to writing fiction. In 1951 she published her first short story in The New Yorker. Since then she has published over twelve collections of stories, two novels, a volume of non-fiction, Paris Notebooks: Essays and Reviews, and a play. A selection of her work from 1951-71, The Cost of Living, was published in 2009.
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Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Memory and Invention
Mavis Gallant
Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all...
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Video: Jhumpa Lahiri and Mavis Gallant
Rosalind Porter, Jhumpa Lahiri & Mavis Gallant
‘Gallant is considered one of the greatest short-story writers of all time’.
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
‘Useless Chaos is What Fiction is About’
Mavis Gallant & Jhumpa Lahiri
‘Useless chaos is what fiction is about.’