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Author Katsoulis, Melissa.

Title Literary hoaxes : an eye-opening history of famous frauds / by Melissa Katsoulis.

Publication Info. New York : Skyhorse Pub., [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  098.3 K156    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  098 KATSOULIS    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  098 KATSOULIS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  098.3 K15    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  098.3 KATSOULIS    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  098.3 KAT    Check Shelf
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.
ISBN 9781602397941
1602397945
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