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...that's what it's like reading Morris' new biography, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (Random House; 874 pages; $35). There is fact and there is fiction, and they are jumbled together. The facts are meticulously footnoted in an epic 115-page section at the end of the book. But so is the fiction. Morris has created detailed and utterly false notes to buttress the fanciful parts of his book, which feature a fictional character, also named Edmund Morris, who is a contemporary of Dutch Reagan's. That he called the book a "memoir" and not a biography...
Because fact can have far more influence than fiction. How else to explain Fragments by Binjamin Wilkomirski, a harrowing, much celebrated Holocaust memoir, which turns out to have been fabricated? The author's real name is Bruno Doesseker. He is not a child survivor of Majdanek, the son of Latvian Jews murdered in the Holocaust. He is Swiss, the son of a Protestant single mother. He never saw the Holocaust. (He claims his Holocaust memory was recalled while he was in therapy...
...University official jokingly termed last night's event at the Graduate School of Education's "Irish Night"--and the most Irish voice there was Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the 1996 memoir Angela's Ashes...
...announcement ceremony was followed by a speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt, author of the best-selling memoir Angela's Ashes...
Kovach also has a contract to write a memoir about his experience at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where he was an editor for two years before resigning due to a dispute with the newspaper's owners...