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Originally Posted by pendragginp
What I also find interesting is that having researched and written this book about fakes, Clifford Irving then went on to try to write and pass off a faked autobiography of Howard Hughes. And Hughes was still living! Did Irving not THINK that the man might stand up and say 'Uh - nope, not mine"?? Even given the fact that Hughes was a recluse and had admittedly become very strange, he had been a businessman and was unlikely to let something like this go by! Even if Irving thought Hughes might be dead - come on!  |
Interesting. I didn't know anything about Clifford Irving. I suppose, in a way, he or someone like him would be in the best position to write about fakes, though.
Since I didn't know anything about Clifford Irving before, I didn't know about the biography (I do remember at least one effort to fake a legal will of Howard Hughes'). Was the biography written after Hughes had become crazy (and I do mean
crazy)? If so, that might explain why he would not have challenged the so-called biography. Just a guess. But, still, you would think that someone who knew him--I was going to say "friend," but I'm not sure that he had any friends, later in life, at least--would have challenged it. It's piqued my interest.