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Author Israel, Lee, author.

Title Can you ever forgive me? : memoirs of a literary forger / Lee Israel.

Publication Info. New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2018.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  364.163 ISRAEL    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY ISRAEL    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  364.163 ISR    Storage
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  BIOGRAPHY ISRAEL    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  364.163 ISRAEL    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  364.163 ISRAEL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  364.163 ISRAEL    Check Shelf
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  364.1635 ISR    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  364.163 ISR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Bishop's Corner Branch - Non Fiction  364.163 ISRAEL    Check Shelf

Edition Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition
Description x, 129 pages ; 22 cm
Summary Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward-and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers.
Contents Brick and pigeons -- Wretched and excessive -- A Mayan minute -- The flies -- Slippery slope -- Cousin Sidney -- Louise -- Riffing -- Faux Louise -- Dorothy -- Noël -- The jig is up -- Violets for his furs -- Trimester two -- This ain't no country club, Lee -- Prep time -- My third trimester.
Subject Israel, Lee.
Forgers -- United States -- Biography.
Literary forgeries and mystifications.
Letters -- Forgeries.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 1982100338 (paperback)
9781982100339 (paperback)
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