Word: hoaxer
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...answered. 'Yes, you did,' Woodward said." She wrote out her resignation and disappeared from the Post's payroll but not from its history. In Green's judgment, "the Post accelerated her success, and may have thereby hastened her failure." If Janet Cooke, talented writer, skillful hoaxer, has any writing future at 26, it should be in fiction, not journalism...
...solve the problem of getting an unsolicited manuscript published? "Only by the persistence of the author," says Kosinski. Or the persistence of the hoaxer. Next time Ross submits the Polish-born author's novel he might keep an eye on the bestseller list and give the manuscript a more current title. Say, The Complete Book of Steps...
...hoaxer been found...
...executed. With the aid of a skillful fence, he turned his mimicry of Matisse, Modigliani and others into millions of dollars until his cover was blown in 1967. The dapper De Hory was the subject of Fake!, a 1969 biography by his friend Clifford Irving−no mean hoaxer himself−and a movie by Orson Welles. In recent years he sold his own works for large sums, but the authorities still pursued him for past fakeries. Last week he was told that he would be extradited to France to stand trial for his part in a $1.3 million sale...
...fool a first-rate newspaper like the Globe, a hoaxer has to create a story that does not seem entirely implausible. In the case of Brezhnev, there had been rumors out of Russia for weeks that the Communist Party boss was sick (see EUROPE). As it happened, the hoaxer, who is still unidentified, worked in the ideal setting to exploit the Brezhnev situation: Boston's renowned Sidney Farber Cancer Center. The hoaxer made up a fake admission schedule card for the Russian leader in the style used by clinic personnel: "L. Brezhnev. No wait. See Dr. Frei." Someone...