He wrote the Howard Hughes "autobiography" that sent him to jail
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You couldn't make it up - Telegraph  Jul 28, 2007 ... ... great Howard Hughes hoax autobiography in the 1970s, went to jail ... With forged letters and false promises, Irving convinced his publishers that Hughes had appointed him as his biographer. ... Irving wrote his first novel, On a Darkling Plain, when he was 26, ..... The cheapest way to send money abroad.
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Liar, Liar - CBS News  Jan 28, 2000 ... And CBS News, too, gave him an award worthy of his performance. ... He was also convicted of fraud and served 14 months in federal prison. ... So how exactly did Irving develop the idea to create an autobiography of Howard Hughes? ... Irving said he believed Howard Hughes was too ill to come forward...
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Clifford Irving - Wikipedia  Clifford Michael Irving (born November 5, 1930) is an American novelist and investigative reporter. Although he has published 20 novels, he is best known for a fictional autobiography of millionaire recluse Howard Hughes, ... After Hughes denounced him and sued the publisher, McGraw-Hill, Irving and his collaborators...
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The Official Website of Clifford Irving | Bio  ... was thrown in federal prison for writing the hoax Autobiography of Howard Hughes which ... unconquerable Ivy League coeds, rowed on the crew, wrote romantic poetry, decided I wasn't a ... I sent it to a literary agent in New York. ... I battled him to a draw; and thirty years later I drove in the winning run in the annual East...
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The Autobiography of Howard Hughes (1971)  Hughes, he said, wanted to write an autobiography in order to set straight all the lies ... They eventually gave him almost $1,000,000 in order to secure the rights to the ... After returning the money he had taken, Irving spent a short time in jail. ... had almost gotten away with writing the fake autobiography of Howard Hughes.
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Mein Kampf - Wikipedia  Mein Kampf is an autobiography by the National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler, in which he ... The governor of Landsberg noted at the time that "he [Hitler] hopes the book will .... He wrote, "Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, .... of Hitler's sense of destiny that began to develop in the early 1920s.
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Gulag: A History - Forejustice  In 1969 Solzhenitsyn's writing led to his expulsion from the Soviet Writers ... also being smuggled out of the country, his magnum opus  The Gulag Archipelago (vol. ... The book's publication led to Solzhenitsyn's arrest, and after being charged ... Stalin authorized establishment of a system of forced labor camps that were...
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The Once Over - JStor  Schnitzkr BOOKS ABROAD ... it is that has brought against him the charge ... ourselves because we may read what he wrote; ... mentioned in this section in the issue following ... age. it Dr. Walther Fischer. Die Englische Lite- ratur der Vereinigten Staaten von "Hprda- .... Epic flight of German prisoners from ..... and 16 marks.
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Clifford Irving Biography (Convict/Fraud/Writer) - Infoplease  Biography of Clifford Irving, Author of the fake Howard Hughes biography. ... manuscripts from Hughes, and that Hughes had authorized him to write a biography. ... Irving, his wife Edith and collaborator Richard Suskind all were convicted for their part in the ... After his release from jail, Irving returned to work as a novelist.
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Prison Years - Oscar Wilde - Standing Ovations  After a month of turning the crank or treadmill, prisoners were generally given ... or picking oakum in their cells - as described in The Ballad of Reading Gaol: "We ... Of these conditions, Wilde wrote on 23 March 1898, to the editor of the Daily .... the nonsense out of Wilde," believed that the governor was "almost inhuman".
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Charles Higham obituary: Celebrity biographer and poet dies at 81 ...  May 4, 2012 ... Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found ... were so salacious that a book critic reviewing "Howard Hughes: The Secret ... (1980), in which he alleged the swashbuckling matinee idol was a Nazi spy. ... Among his claims was that the actor persuaded Warner Bros. to shoot...
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Amazon.com: The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His ...  The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers Paperback ... Much has been written about the mighty, egotistical Henry VIII: the man who dismantled the ..... She also does a pretty fair job of explaining a long and complicated span of English history. ... Henry VIII: The King and His Court Paperback.
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"Howard Hughes: The Autobiography"  Irving ...  It reveals, for the first time, and in his own words, the full and unexpurgated life story ... It was a hoax that shook the American publishing industry, captured ... He received cheques made out to Hughes for around 750,000, which Irving's wife Edith ... lead indirectly to Irving's plan to fake an autobiography of Howard Hughes.
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The Revenge of Karl Marx - The Atlantic  Asked if he could remember a certain Karl Marx, the wheezing old pensioner at first came ... suffering from carbuncles, tending to lunch in the Museum Tavern, very much ... And Francis Wheen, who wrote a notable biography of Marx in 1999, has ... to that once-famous vulgarism of James Carville's: It's the economy, stupid.
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Mein Kampf is published - Jul 18, 1925 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, Mein Kampf is published on Jul 18, 1925. ... Hitler began composing his tome while sitting in Landsberg prison, convicted of treason for his ... Sales of the complete work remained mediocre throughout the 1920s. .... Obama wrote the book before entering politics; 13 years after it was published, he was...
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Eldridge Cleaver, Author and Black Panther ... - Washington Post  May 2, 1998 ... Mr. Cleaver, who had served almost 12 years in prison on a variety of assault, ... fate of black people in the United States, written while he was in jail in California. Published in 1968, the book became the political manifesto of the ... In "Soul on Ice," he would later write: "I started out by practicing on black girls...
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Judith Miller Goes to Jail - The New York Times  Jul 7, 2005 ... One of our reporters, Judith Miller, has decided to accept a jail sentence rather than testify ... We were deeply disappointed by that decision.
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Amazon.com: Memoirs from the House of the Dead ...  Dostoyevsky himself spent four years in exile in such a camp following his .... "Crime and Punishment" (which is the Norton Critical edition) and I think he was much ... I consider it imperative perusing for anyone who wants to know what kind of ... his four actual years in prison labor camps in western Siberia were the Harvard...
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Henri Charrire - Wikipedia  Henri Charrire was a French writer, convicted as a murderer by the French courts. In jail he wrote the famous novel Papillon, a memoir of his incarceration in ... He stated that he was then confined to Devil's Island, a labour camp (Devil's Island was not ... In 1973, his book Papillon was made into a film directed by Franklin J.
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Free Flashcards about HISTORIC NAMES - StudyStack  HIS WIFE EDITH SERVED TIME IN SWISS & U.S. JAILS FOR HELPING HIM WITH HIS FAKE HOWARD HUGHES AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CLIFFORD IRVING.