Description |
vi, 328 pages ; 21 cm |
Note |
"A Herman Graf book." |
Contents |
The eighteenth century. William Lauder ; James Macpherson ; Thomas Chatterton ; William Henry Ireland -- The nineteenth century. Maria Monk ; The protocols of the elders of Zion ; Vrain-Denis Lucas ; Mark Twain ; Sir Edmund Backhouse -- Native Americans. Grey Owl ; Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance ; Forrest Carter ; Nasdijj -- Celebrity testaments. The Abraham Lincoln letters ; The JFK letters ; The autobiography of Howard Hughes ; The Hitler diaries -- Australia. Ern Malley ; Nino Culotta ; Marlo Morgan ; Helen Demidenko ; Norma Khouri ; Wanda Koolmatrie -- Memoirs. Joan Lowell ; Cleone Knox ; Beatrice Sparks ; Laurel Rose Wilson ; Anthony Godby Johnson ; J. T. LeRoy ; Tom Carew ; Michael Gambino ; James Frey ; Margaret B. Jones -- Post-modern ventriloquists. Fern Gravel ; Araki Yasusada ; Andreas Karavis -- Holocaust memoirs. Binjamin Wilkomirski ; Misha Levy Defonseca ; Herman Rosenblat -- Religion. Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold ; Robert Coleman-Norton ; Morton Smith ; Pierre Plantard ; Mark Hofmann -- Entrapment hoaxes. Harold Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke ; H. L. Mencken ; Nicolas Bataille and Akakia Viala ; Jean Shepherd ; Mike McGrady ; Romain Gary ; Alan Sokal ; Bevis Hillier ; William Boyd. |
Summary |
The ultimate reader's-guide to the works that fooled publishers, readers, and critics the world over--from Dionysius the Renegade to modern publishing pranks such as the Hitler Diaries. |
Subject |
Literary forgeries and mystifications -- History.
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ISBN |
9781602397941 |
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1602397945 |
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