The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery (Text Only)
Author | : Simon Worrall |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-04-11 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780007440313 |
ISBN-13 | : 0007440316 |
Rating | : 4/5 (316 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery (Text Only) written by Simon Worrall and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby’s in 1997. The author’s detective work led him across America to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world’s greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is serving a life sentence for double-murder.