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037    |bSimon & Schuster, Order Dept 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ,
       USA, 08075|nSAN 200-2442 
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100 1  Israel, Lee,|eauthor. 
245 10 Can you ever forgive me? :|bmemoirs of a literary forger /
       |cLee Israel. 
250    Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster Paperbacks,|c2018. 
300    x, 129 pages ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
600 10 Israel, Lee. 
650  0 Forgers|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Literary forgeries and mystifications. 
650  0 Letters|xForgeries. 
655  7 Autobiographies.|2lcgft 
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