When Good Writer's Do Bad Things...or James Frey to the tenth power
You "Book Heads" out there may remember this scandal which began to reveal itself a few months back. Well Vanity Fair has the scoop on the author who fooled the literary world, and made quite a few dollars in the process.

The Boy Who Cried Author
The literary parlor game of “Who Is J. T. LeRoy?” got its final answer in February: The mysterious boy novelist with the horrifying tales of childhood abuse was the invention of a 40-year-old San Francisco woman. But the untold story behind this literary hoax is even more outrageous than the fictions.
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