MAVIS GALLANT was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1922. She began her career as a journalist, before switching to fiction in 1950. She moved to Paris a decade later, and spent the rest of her life there. She published 116 stories in The New Yorker over the course of her career; additionally, she wrote two novels, a play, and a collection of essays. A recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story, Gallant was also awarded the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement and the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction. She was named Officer of the Order of Canada in 1981, and in 1993 she was promoted to Companion of the Order. She died in 2014.
