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Chests were heaving in passionate disbelief at last week's Romance Writers of America convention when it emerged that one of the genre's most prolific and popular writers was a plagiarist. JANET DAILEY, right, who has written 93 novels, has 200 million books in print and even has an award named after her, has admitted lifting excerpts from the work of NORA ROBERTS (125 novels, 30 million in print). A fan happened to read Notorious by Dailey and Sweet Revenge by Roberts back to back and posted strikingly similar passages on the Internet. ("Like a rocket, the heat tore...
According to Expository Writing Preceptor Anne E. Fernald, plagiarism is an emotional ordeal for the instructor as well as the plagiarist...
...indignant Bill Clinton plans to reclaim Truman this week when he opens his fall campaign on Labor Day in Harry's home precinct, Independence, Missouri. Truman's daughter Margaret accused Bush of being a "political plagiarist." Truman biographer David McCullough diplomatically cast some light on the issue. "If George Bush is taking inspiration from Truman, that is one thing," he said. "If he is saying 'I'm Truman,' that's absurd...
...still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline 15 years later. (The plagiarist died soon afterwards. Coincidence? Perhaps...
...HEIGHT of the Vietnam War, Marius listened to Lyndon Johnson recite a paragraph of a Winston Churchill speech almost word-for-word. Marius's reaction: "I thought, 'That son-of-a-bitch! Not only is he a murderer, but he's a plagiarist...