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Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel (Paperback, 2019)
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Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy-Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others. Before turning to her life of crime-running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI-Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward-and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers. Lee Israel is deft, funny, and eminently entertaining...[in her] gentle parable about the modern culture of fame, about those who worship it, those who strive for it, and those who trade in its relics (The Associated Press). Exquisitely written, with reproductions of her marvelous forgeries, Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a slender, sordid, and pretty damned fabulous book about her misadventures (The New York Times Book Review).Product Identifiers
PublisherSimon & Schuster
ISBN-139781982116897
eBay Product ID (ePID)23046714303
Product Key Features
Book TitleCan You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
AuthorLee Israel
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTrue Crime, Books
Publication Year2019
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width130mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorLee Israel
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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- 05 Oct, 2022
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Great book that the author alluded to writing in the fantastically funny film of the same name.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 27 Feb, 2019
Can you ever forgive me
Is very enjo yable and interesting readVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Feb, 2019
spot on
excellent period sountrackVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 02 Jul, 2023
Good
All goodVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
