The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History
Frauds in the Stacks | The New York Society Library
Washington Irving: The Perfect Hoax? On October 26, 1809, an eye-catching announcement appeared in the New York Evening Post and ran in several ...
Before 'American Dirt,' a 1980s literary hoax tested the limits of ...
"Famous All Over Town," by a white writer posing as Chicano, shows how things have and haven't changed.
22 Sep 1934 - Famous Literary Hoaxes - Trove
"THAT recently cabled story of how the famous conductor, Sir Henry Wood, completely fooled the British musical world by his ...
Christopher L. Miller's 'Impostors' asks readers: What's in a byline?
In his new book, “Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity,” Miller asserts that even the best literary critics can be fooled by ...
The World's Greatest Hoaxes | Live Science
Great Hoaxes · Raelians · Mary Toft's bunny births · Crazy for crop circles · Laughing at the ivory tower · Tawana Brawley incident · Amityville ...
The biggest book hoaxes of all time - Entertainment Weekly
Greg Mortenson of 'Three Cups of Tea,' James Frey of 'A Million Little Pieces,' and four more authors accused of pulling the wool over ...
Impostors: Literary Hoaxes And Cultural Authenticity [e-book ed ...
Writing a new page in the surprisingly long history of literary deceit, Impostors examines a series of literary hoaxes,...
Explore 6 of history's most infamous scams and hoaxes
Explore 6 of history's most infamous scams and hoaxes. Long before April 1 became a day of harmless pranks, these frauds famously rocked ...
7 Books About Authorship Hoaxes - Electric Literature
Alongside it, my thirsty interest in literary scandals has grown, watered by “Bad Art Friend,” a mysterious manuscript thief, the pathological ...
Popular Hoaxes Books - Goodreads
Before the Deluge Herbert Wendt ; Literary Hoaxes: An Eye-Opening History of Famous Frauds Melissa Katsoulis ; Hype: How Scammers, Grifters, and Con Artists Are ...
For more on fake agency scams–for which solicitation is one of the main markers ... Most successful agencies are sitting on deep catalogs of backlist books ...
From the ILAB Archive: Collecting Rare Books and First Editions
From the ILAB Archive: Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - Famous Literary Hoaxes (Part One) ... Here's a look at some of the biggest literary hoaxes of ...
World's Most Famous Historical Hoaxes | Lessons from History |
The Bathtub Hoax ... With the long list of hoaxes in history, only a few compete with this one, centered around a bathtub. One of the most known ...
The Hoax by Clifford Irving | Open Road Media
Novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of his faked autobiography of Howard Hughes—one of the greatest literary hoaxes of the twentieth century—is ...
Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity
American hoaxes discussed here include Forrest Carter, JT LeRoy, and Margaret B. Jones. The French and Francophone tradition of imposture is ...
This Best-Selling Novel Was A Total Hoax! - YouTube
I would absolutely love it if a week from now Austin came out and said “oh yeah that whole story about the fake book, I made that up.”
'Author: The JT LeRoy Story': Laura Albert Defends Her Work ...
... best-selling author, was considered one of history's greatest literary hoaxes. Savannah Knoop, Albert's sister-in-law, even portrayed ...
Who's who? Mapping hoaxes and imposture in Australian literary ...
Not surprisingly, commentators on Khouri harkened back to the scandal surrounding Helen Demidenko, whose prize-winning novel The Hand That Signed the Paper ...
Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes by Melissa Katsoulis
Telling Tales is a collection of some of the most interesting literary hoaxes committed in the last two centuries, neatly arranged each under its own ...
Top 10 Hoaxes of All Time - Toptenz.net
Perhaps the most famous scientific hoax in history, the Piltdown Man was a skeleton of a primitive humanoid that was discovered in 1912 in ...