The Book in the River: How an Agent Stole Her Memory
The Book in the River: How an Agent Stole Her Memory
Fear and fascination collide: a waterproof bag pulled from the Sutter Branch held a published memoir with the wrong author on the cover, and that single error unraveled years of deliberate deception. How did a retired teacher’s ninety-thousand-word life end up credited to her agent, and why did she not remember writing the inscription that proved it was hers?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led from query letters to a published book and a forensic unmasking. You’ll hear how submissions, rejection letters, handwriting…
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