The literary agent for Steven Galloway has described what he views as the detrimental impact that unproven allegations of rape and sexual assault had on the author at the height of his “promising” career a decade ago.
Henry Dunow told a British Columbia Supreme Court hearing in Galloway’s defamation lawsuit against the accuser and other defendants that he thought of Galloway as a literary “star” with a bright future ahead of him.
But Dunow says the former student’s allegations, which emerged in 2015, would have made it “impossible” to sell any new work by Galloway in the ensuing years, as an author’s “social capital” and platform carry great importance in the industry….