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Interested in murder, mayhem, and mystery? Join us virtually on Zoom on the fourth Tuesday of each month to discuss true crime titles. This month's title is "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" by Lee Israel.
Register online, in person, or by phone at 330.643.9020.
Book summary:
Before turning to her life of crime — running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI — Lee Israel had a legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book, on Tallulah Bankhead, was a New York Times bestseller; her second, on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and irreversible career change: Inspired by a letter she'd received once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991, she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman, and Noel Coward — and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and autograph dealers.
Place a hold on "Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger" by Lee Israel
You might also like "Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger" by Tony Tetro and Giampiero Ambrosi
This event is for all adults interested in discussing true crime! Contact the Business, Government & Science desk at 330.643.9075 or bgsdiv@akronlibrary.org for more information.
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