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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was dubbed “Con man of the year” in a Time magazine cover story and insisted that his “autobiography” –“the most famous unpublished book of the 20th century” as the International Herald Tribune put it – was merely a joke.
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     Clifford Irving: Author whose literary hoax fooled America

2. 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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3. 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 ...

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5. 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...

6. 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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7. 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 Hughes...

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 Hughes...

9. www.sarasotamagazine.com › arts-and-entertainmentThe Genius and Daring of the Late Clifford Irving | Sarasota ...

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   Mar 28, 2018 · Knowing that billionaire Howard Hughes was a complete recluse, holed up in a hotel in the Bahamas and never allowing the outside world to intrude into his hermetic life, Cliff decided he would...