The face of Irving Cliff for untold centuries has overlooked what we know as the valley of Honesdale, the bustling county seat of Wayne County. Oh, what stories that face could tell! Generations of ...
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 Hughes ...
The Hoax is a hoax, and that’s one of its many pleasures. This new Richard Gere movie purports to tell the true story of the not-very-successful novelist Clifford Irving and his notorious 1972 attempt ...
Based on a true story, "The Hoax" details the intricate scheme of Clifford Irving as he attempts to publish his completely fabricated autobiography of a living, breathing man, Howard Hughes. Hughes is ...
I've just seen myself portrayed in a movie, and other than the fact that I come out as a nerd and a jerk, I do OK. It's all in Disney's new hit, ''The Hoax'' which is the story of how hoaxter Clifford ...
Lest we imagine that the publishing industry went to hell only after James Frey and J.T. Leroy clambered on board, here comes Lasse Hallström to remind us of a literary dustup emblematic of a much ...
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, ...
Editor's note: This is part four in a series looking at the history of Honesdale's park system. The face of Irving Cliff for untold centuries has overlooked what we know as the valley of Honesdale, ...
When in doubt, make it up. For a while, it worked for failed writer Clifford Irving (Richard Gere), who in 1971 bamboozled McGraw-Hill into paying six figures for a bogus Howard Hughes bio.