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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After hailing James Frey’s fake memoir, it appears that Oprah Winfrey’s magazine also gave the thumbs up to Love and Consequences although the endorsement came before the memoir’s author publicly admitted that the whole story’s a fake.
Too late to include in tomorrow’s column.
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The author is Margaret Seltzer, not Margaret Jones, and her memoir about being a foster home kid and drug runner is just a figment of her imagination.
Her editor and publisher did not conduct a background check.
Reuters article on ABS-CBN News.
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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.
