Alice Munro and her Editing Team

Known for her spare and powerful prose, it’s a little difficult to imagine anyone editing Alice Munro at all. But according to an article in Quill & Quire, though Munro’s work doesn’t undergo a great deal of editing, there is more than one editor involved.

Munro doesn’t build sentences by accretion in the manner of verbose writers like Norman Mailer or Salman Rushdie – she works by paring away,