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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since her husband was convicted, why wasn't that ever made public by the press?  It seems like an egregious oversight by journalists, as it's not like he has a common name.  Why didn't any of the authors of articles following her Nobel Prize or death include this?[/quote]

Because there is a culture of silence around child sexual abuse. Alice Munro's biographer knew about it but didn't publish it because "it wasn't that kind of book... I wasn’t writing a tell-all biography. And I’ve lived long enough to know that[b] stuff happens in families that they don’t want to talk about and that they want to keep in families." [/b]https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/09/alice-munro-colleagues-abuse/
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This is so gross. Who is the "they" that he is referring to? Surely not the victim (Munro's daughter) who actually WENT TO HIM to tell him about the abuse before his book was published. She quite obviously didn't want to keep it in the family. The "they" that wanted to hide it was the abuser and his wife. And he honored the abuser's wishes above that of the victim.[/quote]

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