Another NY Times Trainee?
 

In "Love and Consequences," a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.

The problem is that none of it is true.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/04/arts/04fake.php

Was it on the Oprah book club?

You know, I've got to wonder how many of these "embellishments" are encouraged by literary agents or the publishers themselves. There seem to be too many recent incidents for these to be isolated.

Sounds like a "Fake but true" Dan Rather Award winner.

The question is - was the memoir marketed as non-fiction? Was the actual author, not her pseudonym, claiming that these were here actual experiences? There have been MANY notable authors who have written memoirs that were unabashed works of fiction, but since they were already established authors the "memoir" was recognized as fiction from the get-go. This could just be a case of mistaken identity.

This is the one I love. Woman writes book about the holocaust, fleeing the Nazi's, living with a pack of wolves that protect her from the Nazi's, makes millions and it's false and she's not even Jewish.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=522960&in_page_id=181 1