Educators in Canada and beyond are now rethinking her life and work.
NEW YORK -- For decades, Robert Lecker has read, taught and written about Alice Munro, the Nobel laureate from Canada renowned for her short stories. A professor of English at McGill University in Montreal, and author of numerous critical studies of Canadian fiction, he has thought of Munro as the "jewel" in the crown of her country's literature and source of some of the richest material for classroom discussion.
Andrea Robin Skinner, daughter of Munro and James Munro, wrote in the Toronto Star earlier this month that she had been assaulted at age 9 by Munro's second husband, Gerard Fremlin. She alleged that he continued to harass and abuse her for the next few years, losing interest when she reached her teens. In her 20s, she told her mother about Fremlin's abuse. But Munro, after briefly leaving Fremlin, returned and remained with him until his death in 2013.
At Western University in London, Ontario, Munro's alma mater, the school has posted a statement on its website saying that it was "taking time to carefully consider the impact" of the revelations. Since 2018, Western University has offered an Alice Munro Chair in Creativity, with a mission to "Lead the creative culture of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, serving as a mentor and a model.
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