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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 .
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...
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.
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. He was 87.
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 – perfect fodder for...
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Dec 20, 2017 · Author Clifford Irving, who penned an infamous 1972 hoax — the “Autobiography of Howard Hughes” — has died of cancer in Sarasota, Fla. He was 87. Irving, a former Aspen resident, published...
