Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy-Lee Israel's
hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried
on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three
hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna
Ferber, Noel Coward, and many others. Before turning to her life of
crime-running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in
a Greenwich Village bar and even dodging the FBI-Lee Israel had a
legitimate career as an author of biographies. Her first book on
Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her second,
on the late journalist and reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, made a
splash in the headlines. But by 1990, almost broke and desperate to
hang onto her Upper West Side studio, Lee made a bold and
irreversible career change: inspired by a letter she'd received
once from Katharine Hepburn, and armed with her considerable skills
as a researcher and celebrity biographer, she began to forge
letters in the voices of literary greats. Between 1990 and 1991,
she wrote more than three hundred letters in the voices of, among
others, Dorothy Parker, Louise Brooks, Edna Ferber, Lillian
Hellman, and Noel Coward-and sold the forgeries to memorabilia and
autograph dealers. "Lee Israel is deft, funny, and eminently
entertaining...[in her] gentle parable about the modern culture of
fame, about those who worship it, those who strive for it, and
those who trade in its relics" (The Associated Press). Exquisitely
written, with reproductions of her marvelous forgeries, Can You
Ever Forgive Me? is "a slender, sordid, and pretty damned fabulous
book about her misadventures" (The New York Times Book Review).
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