Lee Israel, a Writer Proudest of Her Literary Forgeries, Dies at 75

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Can You Ever Forgive Me? : NPR

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Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel. ... Cukor, Rebecca West, and a group thatElaine Stritch once called "all the Dames Edith"...you would be wrong.

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

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Memoirs of a Literary Forger - Kindle edition by Lee Israel. ... West, and a group thatElaine Stritch once called "all the Dames Edith"...you would be wrong.

Even if I had an exact  replica of Dorothy Parker's typewriter

MY ultimate literary fame would not be any brighter

because  instead of "Men Seldom Make Passes

at Girls Who Wear Glasses"

I'd be much more inclined to say:

Life Can  Only be a  Utopia

to those with Myopia

which doesn't have quite the same cachet.;

But anyway,

Let's give a farewell toast to celebrate 

this peculiarly gifted lady

who was BOTH extremely literate

as well as, more than slightly,SHADY. 

hzl

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