New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. First Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding tight, unread copy. Head and heel of spine each have very slight bumps. White jacket has a few nearly imperceptible smudges. Bound in white paper over boards with cloth spine stamped in red foil.. When Lee Israel's celebrated writing career took a sudden downturn she embarked on an astonishing one-woman forgery racket run out of her Upper West Side studio. Using old typewriters, she fabricated hundreds of letters from the likes of Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, Edna Ferber, Lillian Hellman and others, skillfully imitating their individual voices and styles and then forging their autographs with a flourish. The 2018 film of the same name, starring Melissa McCarthy, is adapted from this memoir.

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Bookseller: Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 11556
Title: Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger
Author: Israel, Lee (1939-2014)
Format/Binding: Hardcover. Octavo. x, 131 pages
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Binding tight, unread copy. Head and heel of spine each have very slight bumps. White jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: Forgeries, Autobiography, Literary crimes, Books Into Film, theft, Library thefts, Books About Books
Bookseller catalogs: Biography & Memoirs;

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About Back Creek Books LLC, ABAA/ILAB

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