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Feb 5, 2012 · Imagine a scale on one end of which are authors who poach plot ideas (Shakespeare stealing from Plutarch) and on the other are those who copy passages word for word: Jacob Epstein, who cribbed...
- When Jonah Lehrer dug himself into a hole the size of Bob Dylan’s ego: This one’s a saga. First, it was only self-plagiarism, although of a fairly insidious strain—in June of 2012, Jim Romenesko noticed that one of New Yorker staff writer Jonah Lehrer’s pieces had “borrowed” from an earlier Wall Street Journal piece he had written.
- When Q.R. Markham, a.k.a. Quentin Rowan, made a book out of other books: You might describe Quentin Rowan as an overachieving plagiarist. He didn’t just crib one line, or make copious use of a single text, or even limit his plagiarism to his debut novel, the spy thriller Assassin of Secrets.
- When a Harvard student plagiarized chick-lit: In 2006, a Harvard undergrad named Kaavya Viswanathan published her first novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.
- When a debut novelist stole from Martin Amis—and Amis himself caught him. Jacob Epstein wrote his first novel when he was a senior at Yale—but it appears he did a little too much studying for it.
Jacob Epstein wrote his first novel, Wild Oats when he was a senior at Yale. In the Observer, Martin Amis accused Epstein of plagiarising more than 50 passages from Amis’ book, The Rachel Papers, and using them in Wild Oats. Later, Epstein apologised and admitted to plagiarising passages and images not only from Amis’ book but also from ...
ondon, Oct. 27--Jacob Epstein, responding to charges that he had plagiarized from Martin Amis's "The Rachel Papers" for his first novel, "Wild Oats," has apologized, admitting that he had indeed...
The last time Martin Amis caused literary ripples on this side of the Atlantic, he was the offended party in a plagiarism scandal. That was in 1980 when a young American writer named Jacob...
Apr 28, 2006 · The extent of the plagiarism in "Opal" recalls some previous, notorious cases, including Jacob Epstein's "Wild Oats," a debut novel, that was published in 1979 and was later found to have...
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