text:  my focus was on Alice Munro's development as a writer, as revealed in her archival holding, which I knew very well from time spent at the University of Calgary, where most of this material is. So that the book I was writing, while it certainly is a biographical study, it's a biographical study focused on the development of the fiction and how Munro did this as the years passed, rather than, I suppose, a traditional biography that just looks at the writer's life only.