Fake Memoirs

From the book show on radio national an excellent program on the proliferation of faked memoirs recently re-aired as part of the summer series of repeats. Presenter Ramona Koval talks to a film-maker, a journalist/editor/academic and a publisher about people who fake it. There are some interesting answers in here to the question of why these people don't just write fiction.

James Frey author of A million little pieces

the "memoir" famously endorsed by Oprah Winfrey.