Telling Tales
Katsoulis, Melissa

Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1 The Eighteenth Century 13
William Lauder – James Macpherson – Thomas Chatterton – William Henry Ireland
2 The Nineteenth Century 41
Maria Monk – The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – Vrain-Denis Lucas – Mark Twain – Sir Edmund Backhouse
3 Native Americans 79
Grey Owl – Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance – Forrest Carter – Nasdijj
4 Celebrity Testaments 97
The Abraham Lincoln Letters – The JFK Letters – The Autobiography of Howard Hughes – The Hitler Diaries
5 Australia 123
Ern Malley – Nino Culotta – Marlo Morgan – Helen Demidenko – Norma Khouri – Wanda Koolmatrie
6 Memoirs 165
Joan Lowell – Cleone Knox – Beatrice Sparks – Laurel Rose Willson – Anthony Godby Johnson – J.T. LeRoy – Tom Carew – Michael Gambino – James Frey – Margaret B. Jones
7 Post-Modern Ventriloquists 219
Fern Gravel – Araki Yasusada – Andreas Karavis
8 Holocaust Memoirs 235
Binjamin Wilkomirski – Misha Levy Defonseca – Herman Rosenblat
9 Religion 253
Johannes Wilhelm Meinhold – Robert Coleman-Norton – Morton Smith – Pierre Plantard – Mark Hofmann
10 Entrapment Hoaxes 285
Harold Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke – H.L. Mencken – Nicolas Bataille and Akakia Viala – Jean Shepherd – Mike McGrady – Romain Gary – Alan Sokal – Bevis Hillier – William Boyd