Five Fake Memoirs That Fooled the Literary World

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Five Fake Memoirs That Fooled the Literary World. Fiction was stranger than truth in these examples of authentic autobiographies that were anything but that.

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The fake memoir isn't a new phenomenon; people have been embellishing and altering their life stories since the dawn of writing.

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From JT LeRoy to the Hitler Diaries - fakes that fooled the world.

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List of fake memoirs and journals - Wikipedia

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These are usually memoirs, autofictions, or books that pretend to speak for the group to which the fake author is assumed to belong. Miller ...

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Why would two poets invent a fake writer, complete with a fake oeuvre and compelling life story, and then submit their fabrication to a literary magazine?

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