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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.
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...
When her writing career stalled, Lee Israel, now profiled in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," turned to literary forgery and theft. Lee Israel's life and illegal letter forgery will be the subject of an upcoming movie starring Melissa McCarthy.
Feb 22, 2019 · Lee Israel came late to a life of crime. Though her forgeries of letters from luminaries like Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway would ultimately become a far more enduring...
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Oct 19, 2018 · The new film is based on a memoir by Lee Israel, a biographer turned literary forger.
Jan 14, 2019 · For the past two years, the 53-year-old biographer and journalist had made a killing – not a fortune, but enough to pay the arrears on her rent and get her beloved sick cat treated by the vet – by...
Oct 19, 2018 · For Lee Israel, a celebrity biographer by trade and the subject of Melissa McCarthy’s new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the best way to acquire such letters was to buy an old typewriter, do a...
