Fake "Memoirs"

• "A Million Little Pieces" by James Frey
  • Exposed in January 2006
• "Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years" by Misha Defonseca
  • Exposed in March 2008
• "Love and Consequences" By Margaret B. Jones
  • Actually written by Margaret Seltzer
  • Seltzer executed elaborate hoax, with fake photos, letters, etc.
  • Exposed in March 2008
• "The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven" By Kevin & Alex Malarkey
  • The boy Alex had made up the story to get attention
  • Exposed in January 2015
• All 4 "memoirs" were fake
• Publishers could do better job of fact checking