Alice Munro knew my stepfather sexually abused me as a child, says Nobel laureate’s daughter

Alice Munro, pictured in 2005. Her daughter Andrea Robin Skinner has revealed her stepfather sexually assaulted her as a child, but her mother stayed with him. The short story author died in May, aged 92. Photograph: Andrew Testa/Shutterstock

The daughter of the Nobel prize winner Alice Munro, Andrea Robin Skinner, has alleged that her stepfather sexually abused her as a child, and that her mother stayed with him even after he admitted to the abuse.

Skinner revealed the allegations in an essay and a news article in Canada’s Toronto Star on the weekend, writing about how her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin, began sexually assaulting her in 1976 when she was nine years old and he was in his 50s.