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Lee Israel. Leonore Carol " Lee " Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was an American author known for committing literary forgery. Her 2008 confessional autobiography Can You Ever Forgive Me? was adapted into the 2018 film of the same name starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel.
- December 24, 2014 (aged 75), New York City, U.S.
- City University of New York
- Literary forgery
- Leonore Carol Israel, December 3, 1939, New York City, U.S.
Andrew Henderson/The New York Times Lee Israel in 2008. The story of a down-on-her-luck author who turned to a life of crime to survive sounds like a plot fit only for the movies. And while it is the subject of an upcoming film, there is a real-life figure who inspired the story: author Lee Israel. Israel was a successful writer and biographer ...
Jan 8, 2015 · Ms. Israel, who died in Manhattan on Dec. 24 at 75, was a reasonably successful author in the 1970s and ’80s, writing biographies of the actress Tallulah Bankhead, the journalist Dorothy ...
Jan 14, 2019 · Mon 14 Jan 2019 04.00 EST. I n 1993, New York author Lee Israel found herself staring down the barrel of a prison sentence. Following an investigation by the FBI, she had been busted as a literary ...
Feb 22, 2019 · In 'Can You Ever Forgive Me', Melissa McCarthy plays Lee Israel forged 400 letters from Dorothy Parker, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway and more. McCarthy earned an Academy Award nomination for her ...
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Feb 24, 2015 · Lee Israel, who has died aged 75, was a writer who enjoyed modest success with biographies of the American actress Tallulah Bankhead and the gossip columnist Dorothy Kilgallen; but after falling ...
Sep 10, 2008 · Over three years, Lee Israel faked 400 letters from famous dead writers and sold them for "some jingle." Following an FBI sting and six months of house arrest, she's out with a memoir about her ...
