Novelist Alice Sebold has issued a public apology to Anthony J. Broadwater, the man wrongfully convicted of raping her. In a statement published on Medium, Sebold, most famous for her book “The Lovely Bones,” apologized and addressed her role in making Broadwater “another young Black man brutalized by our flawed legal system” Her apology comes eight days after Broadwater’s conviction was vacated on the basis that the legal case, which Sebold details in her memoir, was deeply flawed.