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Clifford Michael Irving (November 5, 1930 – December 19, 2017) was an American novelist and investigative reporter. Although he published 20 novels, he is best known for an "autobiography" allegedly written as told to Irving by billionaire recluse Howard Hughes. The fictional work was to have been published in 1972.
- Novelist, investigative reporter
- Cornell University
- 1956–2015
- Clifford Michael Irving, November 5, 1930, New York City, U.S.
Dec 20, 2017 · Dec. 20, 2017. Clifford Irving, who perpetrated one of the biggest literary hoaxes of the 20th century in the early 1970s when he concocted a supposedly authorized autobiography of the...
Dec 29, 2017 · Clifford Irving, the globetrotting novelist and supposed biographer of the late American billionaire Howard Hughes. Hughes was known for being an eccentric and a recluse –...
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Dec 21, 2017 · The author Clifford Irving, who has died aged 87, was best known for writing what became the most famous unpublished book of the 20th century, The Autobiography of Howard Hughes.
Dec 21, 2017 · The hoax’s perpetrator, globe-trotting novelist and Howard Hughes “biographer” Clifford Irving, died Dec. 19 at a hospice near his home in Sarasota, Fla.
Dec 21, 2017 · Clifford Irving, whose audacious scheme to publish a fake autobiography of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes stands as one of the great literary hoaxes, has died at a hospice facility in...
Dec 21, 2017 · MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Clifford Irving, whose scheme to publish a phony autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes created a sensation in the 1970s and stands as one of the all-time literary hoaxes, died after being admitted to hospice care in Florida.
