NPR: Author Scolded by Oprah Gets New Book Deal

Author Scolded by Oprah Gets New Book Deal

Proving once again that there is no such thing as bad publicity, James Frey, the author who acknowledged making up sections of his best-selling memoir A Million Little Pieces, has landed safely a year later. The New York Times reports that Frey has signed a new deal with HarperCollins for his novel Bright Shiny Morning.

Frey will forever be remembered as the author Oprah Winfrey chewed out on national television for lying to her. Seldom has there been such a public tongue-lashing — outside of reality TV.

But Frey should not have any problems with this new book. People already know it's fiction.

4:55 PM ET | 09-13-2007 | permalink

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I think it all started when George Sand wrote eighty novels while she dressed like a man, smoked cigars and dated Chopin. No, actually it all started when it was discovered that the Gospel of Luke was written by a team of Greek scribes. Hey, who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, anyway? Wait! What's all this talk about Shakespeare's Hamlet was really written by Sir Francis Bacon. And what about Richard Bachmann really being Stephen King? Then there was Clifford Irving's biography of Howard Hughes, and the really scintillating "Lost Hitler Diaries."

Anyway, someone sent me this blog where blogger Loren Rosson lists a Top 20 Literary Hoaxes. Some interesting reads --- fred call

http://lorenrosson.blogspot.com/2005/10/top-20-literary-hoaxes.html

"Concerning no. 17, Anthony Grafton mentions a theory that the faked Shakespearean notes where actually perpetrated by Sir Frederick Madden to frame John Payne Collier. Anthony Grafton, Forgers and Critics, pp. 39-40, explains that Collier (already guilty of other fakes) got the interpolated MSS from Sir Madden, who hated Collier, who had the ability to do it, and whose hand resembles the forger's."

Sent by fred call | 10:36 PM ET | 09-13-2007

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