Alice Munro, Nobel-winning Canadian Author, Dead At 92

Canadian author Alice Munro, who has died at 92, won the 2013 Nobel Prize for literature (Credit: AFP)

Alice Munro, the Nobel Prize-winning author known as "Canada's Chekhov" for her mastery of the short story, has died at 92, her editor said Tuesday.

Munro set her taut, acutely observed stories in the rural Ontario countryside where she grew up, focusing a stark lens on the frailties of the human condition.