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From the NYT:
In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.
The problem is that none of it is true.
(via Read Roger)
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i think i have to write a fake memoir. it feels like i'm missing out on something.
Posted by: bookfraud | 04 March 2008 at 09:39 AM
There ought to be a requirement that publishers look up every single person mentioned in a "memoir" and make him or her testify in court that this actually happened. All right, maybe a little impractical. But still.
Posted by: Mairi | 04 March 2008 at 03:20 PM