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Faked books follow long tradition of literary swindles

Fri, 03/07/2008 - 14:05 — Blake

Two much touted books exposed as fakes in recent weeks -- a searing US memoir on life with gangs and drugs and a best-seller-turned-movie on the Holocaust-- have rocked the publishing world but are only the latest in an ignominious literary tradition of bogus tales and trumped-up protagonists.
But "Born with Wolves" and "Love and Consequences" are hardly the only pieces of fact-turned fiction.

Consider the case of the "Hitler Diaries", "discovered" by journalist Gerd Heidemann and published in April 1983 by the German news magazine Stern.

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