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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
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.
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Irving faked the Hughes autobiography after he wrote Fake! And Hughes did come forward and say he had never worked with the writer and the whole thing was bogus. He was (I think) avoiding a subpoena about TWA business or some such, so he gave an interview over the phone with newsmen who had known him.
Irving went to prison.