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  • March 2008

    • How to Fake a Memoir

      Slate  |  Mar 12, 08 4:03 CDT

      How to Fake a Memoir

      (Newser) - Misha Defonseca's memoir left a sticky trail of lies about escaping Nazis and living with wolves. (It turns out wolf saliva isn't an antiseptic.) Tired of careless fabricators, Slate writes a how-to for aspiring fakers: Keep it vague. Dates are verifiable—"awhile" is not. Watch out for tattling siblings. Revenge can be dirty, especially if you kill them off in your faux memoir (as Margaret Seltzer recently discovered). Check your paper trail. That goes for elementary school registers, which gave away Defonseca's real whereabouts. More »

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      memoir  • humor  • author  • James Frey  • Margaret Seltzer  • fake memoirs

    • Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

      New York Times  |  Mar 4, 08 7:50 AM CST

      Gang Memoir Exposed as Fiction

      (Newser) - Margaret Jones' acclaimed memoir of a half-Native American girl growing up in a foster home in South Central LA and running with gangs, Love and Consequences, turns out to be fiction, the New York Times reports. Jones, whose real name is Seltzer, grew up with her birth parents in an affluent LA neighborhood; she was busted when her sister spotted her photo in a Times feature about the book and called her publisher. More »

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      Los Angeles  • book  • publishing  • memoir  • author  • gangs  • fiction  • Penguin Group  • Margaret Seltzer  • South Central LA  • fabrication

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