Born in Montreal in 1922, Mavis Gallant left a career as a leading journalist in that city to move to Paris in 1950 to write. Since that time she has been publishing stories on a regular basis in The New Yorker, many of which have been anthologized. Her world-wide reputation has been established by books such as From the Fifteenth District and Home Truths, which won the Governor General’s Award in 1982. In that same year she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, becoming a Companion of the Order in 1993.

Gallant is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has received honorary degrees from several Canadian universities. In 2001 she became the first winner of the Matt Cohen Award. In 2006 she became the first English-language writer to win the prestigious Prix Athanase-David, one of the Prix du Québec. She lives in Paris.

Books by Mavis Gallant

Home Truths

Green Water, Green Sky

From the Fifteenth District

A Fairly Good Time

The Other Paris

The Pegnitz Junction

Overhead in a Balloon

In Transit

The Moslem Wife and Other Stories

Across the Bridge

The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant