Fabricated Memoirs: 17 Tales That Turned Out to Be Lies
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BuzzFeed catalogs 17 famous memoirs that were later exposed as fabrications, ranging from James Frey’s Million Little Pieces to JT LeRoy and Go Ask Alice, detailing how these hoaxes fooled publishers and readers, the investigations that uncovered the truth, and the legal or financial fallout for the authors and their promoters.
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