10 OTHER literary hoaxes.

From the CBC (via Bookslut):

Writers with a hard-luck memoir in the works may want to wait until the dust settles before approaching a publisher. With both of these swindles, industry insiders have spent the week alternately claiming they “suspected all along” that something was up and nervously defending their fact-checking processes. As for the rest of us, we can sit back and relish the juicy details of the latest incidents in the long, illustrious history of literary hoaxes. Here are 10 of the best.

My favorite was the one about The Education of Little Tree.  I knew that there was some controversy surrounding it -- but I had no idea that the author was a former member of the KKK!!  Rad.  (As in "Rad I can't believe it, that's so crazy".  Not as in "Rad that's so cool that that guy was in the KKK."  You know what I mean.)