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Fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. By 1958, millionaire Howard Hughes had become a recluse. In 1970, in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Irving met with Richard Suskind, a longtime friend who was an author of children's books.
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 billionaire Howard...
The screenplay by William Wheeler is based on the book of the same title by Clifford Irving. It recounts Irving's elaborate hoax of publishing an autobiography of Howard Hughes that he purportedly helped write, without ever having talked with Hughes. The screenplay was considerably different from the book.
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 29, 2017 · Irving penned a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes, the American billionaire and eccentric recluse. It was so good that when Hughes complained, many thought he was the liar.
Apr 20, 2007 · The Hoax: Directed by Lasse Hallström. With David Aaron Baker, John Carter, Judi Barton, Raul S. Julia. In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Apr 5, 2007 · In the early 1970s, Clifford Irving got a million-dollar advance for what turned out to be a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Irving's fake was discovered, and he went to jail — where he...
