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There are few documented examples of the fake or forged autobiography, although the genre probably has a long, secret history. Its most famous practitioner was Clifford Irving, who, in 1971, tried to publish the tell-all memoirs of Howard Hughes without telling Hughes. Irving's manuscript began with a brazen announcement that "more lies have been printed and told about me than about any living man" and that it was time for the "elusive, often painful truth." Irving made the mistake of releasing his manuscript while Hughes was still alive. Nothing kills an autobiography like a flat-out denial by the author.
In 1979, the Russian-emigre musicologist Solomon Volkov ...