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The Hoax, March 2007
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Hyperion
March 2007
On Sale: March 6, 2007
400 pages
ISBN: 1401308546
EAN: 9781401308544
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Non-Fiction Biography
Before Oprah and TheSmokingGun had ever heard of James Frey,
there was Clifford Irving. In 1971, he burst onto the
literary scene,
claiming to have been granted the right to pen the
authorized biography
of the famously reclusive icon Howard Hughes. Forged
documents seemed
to bear out his claims, and McGraw-Hill awarded him a
contract for the
then-enormous sum of $750,000. When Hughes himself emerged from
seclusion to denounce Irving as a charlatan, McGraw-Hill
stood by their
author. It wasn't until Hughes filed suit, and Swiss bank
officials got
involved, that Irving finally confessed. The Hoax, first
published in 1981, is Irving's explosive account of his own
misdeeds.
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