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2006 has to be the best year ever for fake writers. Between James Frey, a preppy white kid from a pretty decent family, completely overdramatizing and sometimes just flat out lying about his life to garner sympathy and show how hard his “struggle” was and JT Leroy pretending to be an HIV+ man to garner sympathy, both to sell more books, this has already been a huge year for fake writers.
It’s only getting better. Kaavya Viswanathan, a sophomore at Harvard and supposed prodigy author of “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” has been exposed for a plaguerist. Kaavya inked a deal worth a reported $500,000 on her very first book deal, no word yet on whether or not the money is real or fake.
Of course now that she’s been exposed, she has come out and said it was all a big accident and that she was just such a huge fan of Megan McCafferty in high school that it all somehow magically seeped into her book. Somehow just unintentionally showed up in her work not once, not twice…but at least seven different passages. Yeah…right.
Harvard author owns up to goof, in another’s words [Daily News]
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