The full text of my opinion column today, “How many memoirs are true stories?”:
In the case of Margaret Jones’ Love and Consequences, the memoir of a half-white and half-Native American girl who ran drugs and lived in foster homes, the word truth does not apply. After all the critical acclaim and the sale of some [...]
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The Smoking Gun blew the lid on James Frey’s memoir, “A Million Little Pieces”.
Transcript from Oprah where Frey’s publisher admitted that no background check was made on his story.
Frey’s bio in Wikipedia.
Bio of Nan Talese, Frey’s publisher, in Wikipedia.
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you about me, this blog and a few irrelevant things as well.
