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Winn has since written two sequels and has a lucrative publishing deal with Penguin to produce at least one more.
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So it looks like Random House paid a big advance, for a fourth book, that they will almost certainly want to claw back. Either that, or the
Observer article is a libelous falsehood, which I doubt.
Random House will then be in line with some of the other creditors mentioned in the article.
While I don't expect Random House to fact check
the way The Atlantic does, PRH should do better than they did here.
Perhaps Random House normally would catch something so blatant, with this author being an unusually skillful grifter.
Modest proposal to nonfiction book editors: If your budget won't allow a full Atlantic-style fact check, at least do a good job on the acknowledgements. I'm thinking grifters cannot resist padding that.