A biographer of the Canadian writer says he was among those who knew that Munro’s daughter had been sexually abused by her stepfather
Robert Thacker, a Canadian academic and author of “Alice Munro: Writing Her Lives,” a biography of the late Nobel Prize-winning writer, said that he expected it to happen: Eventually, the public would learn the story of how Munro’s husband, Gerald Fremlin, had“I knew this day was going to come,” Thacker told The Post on Monday, later adding, “I knew that it was going to come out, and I knew that I would be having conversations like this.
Thacker said that he and Munro spoke about the matter in 2008, when they met in a restaurant for an interview. Munro asked him to turn off his recorder. He declined to describe the conversation in detail, but said that Munro informed him that in 1992, when Skinner was 25, she told Munro about the abuse. Munro said that she had left Fremlin for a time, and that she ultimately decided to return.
a woman who represses the knowledge that her partner sexually abused children: “Those of us who Alice, or have Alice, have always thought that this story directly connected to this whole issue.”
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