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1. • • Serving time came as a shock to Irving, who was dubbed “Con man of the year” in a Time magazine cover story and insisted that his “autobiography” –“the most famous unpublished book of the 20th century” as the International Herald Tribune put it – was merely a joke.
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   Was Irving's 'autobiography' a joke?

   • Serving time came as a shock to Irving, who was dubbed “Con man of the year” in a Time magazine cover story and insisted that his “autobiography” –“the most famous unpublished book of the 20th century” as the International Herald Tribune put it – was merely a joke. “I don't see it as a crime worthy of society's customary revenge,” he later said.

   Clifford Irving: Author whose literary hoax fooled America

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   Did Clifford Irving publish a fake Howard Hughes autobiography?

   • In 2012, the fake Hughes autobiography was published under the title “Clifford Irving’s Autobiography of Howard Hughes” as an e-book. (The cover proclaimed, “Until now, the most famous unpublished book of the 20th century.”) He also published “Jailing: The Prison Memoirs of 0040, a k a Clifford Irving” as an e-book.

   Clifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87

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   Who was Clifford Irving?

   • Clifford Irving, who perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century in the early 1970s when he concocted a supposedly authorized autobiography of the billionaire Howard Hughes based on meetings and interviews that never took place, died on Tuesday at a hospice facility near his home in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87.

   Clifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87

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   What happened to Irving & Suskind?

   • Irving, his wife and Suskind returned the remainder of the money they made during the what Irving later called the “writing event!” and pleaded guilty to charges of grand larceny and conspiracy. Each of them spent time in prison, with Irving serving about 16 months of a two-year sentence.

   Clifford Irving: Author whose literary hoax fooled America

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3. www.independent.co.uk › news › obituariesClifford Irving: Author whose literary hoax fooled America

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   Dec 29, 2017 · Irving penned a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, the American billionaire and eccentric recluse. It was so good that when Hughes complained, many thought he was the liar Harrison Smith

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4. www.npr.org › 2007/04/05 › 9396755'The Hoax' Tells a Real Story About a Fake : NPR

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   Apr 5, 2007 · In the early 1970s, Clifford Irving got a million-dollar advance for what turned out to be a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Irving's fake was discovered, and he went to jail — where he...

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5. www.washingtonpost.com › local › obituariesClifford Irving, whose ‘autobiography’ of Howard Hughes ...

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   Dec 21, 2017 · The greatest literary hoax of the 20th century — call it a prank, scandal, ad­ven­ture, criminal conspiracy, or an early piece of “fake news” — fooled lie detectors, handwriting experts ...

6. www.sarasotamagazine.com › arts-and-entertainmentBehind the Fake: An Interview with Author Clifford Irving

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   May 30, 2014 · Author Clifford Irving may be best known as the man who faked an autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, eventually spending 17 months in prison after exposure of that publishing...

7. www.sfgate.com › news › articleClifford Irving, author of fake autobiography of Howard ...

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   Dec 20, 2017 · Irving, the prankster who wrote a phony autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes and fooled a major publisher in 1971 has died at 87. The New York Times reports Irving's wife, Julie...

8. www.nytimes.com › 2017/12/20 › obituariesClifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax, Dies at 87

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   Dec 20, 2017 · Clifford Irving, who perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century in the early 1970s when he concocted a supposedly authorized autobiography of the billionaire Howard...

9. www.wral.com › story › clifford-irving-author-of-aClifford Irving, Author of a Notorious Literary Hoax ... - WRAL

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   Clifford Irving, who perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century in the early 1970s when he concocted a supposedly authorized autobiography of the billionaire Howard...