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Roots by Alex Haley.
Alex Haley doesn't know what his "roots" are, so he had to make it all up from some oral family traditions.
http://www.martinlutherking.org/roots.html
Go Ask Alice - A Real Diary by "Anonymous" (i.e., Beatrice Sparks).
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp
After the success of Go Ask Alice, Beatrice Sparks just "happened" to come across six other 'diaries' that she was able to mass-produce in book form. Interesting...
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Everything written by Carlos Castaneda.
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Got any more that I'm not aware of? Researching this on Google doesn't count! I want to know about other fake non-fiction novels (etc) that were exposed as fraudulent after publication.
Alex Haley doesn't know what his "roots" are, so he had to make it all up from some oral family traditions.
http://www.martinlutherking.org/roots.html
And a long-suppressed tape of the famous session in which Haley " found" Kunta Kinte through the recitation of an African "griot" proves that, as BBC producer James Kent noted, "the villagers [were] threatened by members of Haley's party.
These turn out to be senior government officials desperate to ensure that things go smoothly."
~These turn out to be senior government officials desperate to ensure that things go smoothly."
Go Ask Alice - A Real Diary by "Anonymous" (i.e., Beatrice Sparks).
http://www.snopes.com/language/literary/askalice.asp
After the success of Go Ask Alice, Beatrice Sparks just "happened" to come across six other 'diaries' that she was able to mass-produce in book form. Interesting...
~
Everything written by Carlos Castaneda.
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Got any more that I'm not aware of? Researching this on Google doesn't count! I want to know about other fake non-fiction novels (etc) that were exposed as fraudulent after publication.