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Misha Defonseca
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Author of Fake Holocaust Memoir Loses $22.5M Case
May 12, 2014 6:11 AM CDT
Author of Fake Holocaust Memoir Loses $22.5M Case
Misha Defonseca claimed she spent WWII with pack of wolves
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woman who made up a best-selling memoir about spending her World War II childhood living with wolves in Europe's forests after her parents were arrested by the Nazis has been ordered to repay her publisher a whopping $22.5 million. After an earlier legal dispute with Misha Defonseca...
How to Fake a Memoir
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How to Fake a Memoir
Embellish the story without getting caught, Slate scribe suggests
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- Misha Defonseca's memoir left a sticky trail of lies about escaping Nazis and living with wolves. (It turns out wolf saliva isn't an antiseptic.) Tired of careless fabricators, Slate writes a how-to for aspiring fakers:
Keep it vague.
Dates are verifiable—"awhile" is not.
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