Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
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Lee Israel, once a legitimate celebrity biographer whose Tallulah Bankhead book was a New York Times bestseller, was almost broke by 1990 and desperate to keep her Upper West Side studio. Inspired by a letter from Katharine Hepburn and armed with research skill, she began forging letters in the voices of literary greats. For nearly two years she wrote more than three hundred letters as Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, Noel Coward, and others, selling them to memorabilia dealers. She ran the one-woman forgery business out of a Greenwich Village bar phone booth and even dodged the FBI. This is her memoir of the caper.
Genres: True Crime
ISBN-13: 9781982100339
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