Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant (1922-2014), born Mavis Young in Montreal to a father of British descent, whom she lost as a child, went through seventeen schools and boarding schools in both languages. A journalist at the Montreal Standard, she left the press in 1950 to live by fiction alone, went to Europe, then settled in Paris, which she never left. There she kept a notebook of the events of May 1968, published in the New Yorker, which printed more than a hundred of her stories. She died in Paris.

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• Short storiesMy Heart Is BrokenMavis Gallant · 1964Literature