Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

by Lee Israel

$175 · Offered by Back Creek Books

First edition

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008 . First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from the likes of Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Edna Ferber,

• Printing: first
• Binding: Hardcover

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