Literary RPF Fraud Wank with A.N. Wilson and Suspects
Posted for a mouse on wank report. I love author wank, and this one even features a fake love letter between two authors, making it honourary RPF.

Okay. So, this is a link to a New York Times article about two feuding biographers. One, A. N. Wilson, has just been discovered to be the victim of a hoax, in the form of a fake letter which he published in his recent book. The letter contains a rude message about Wilson. The chief suspect is the biographer with whom he has been feuding.

The story in short in the NY Times.

There's a link about the feud in the Guardian and this article includes a denial of blame by the chief suspect. And a columnist's reaction here.

It's all really rather civilized -- if you discount the rudeness of the letter and the folks pointing, laughing and denying culpability, but I think the letter elevates this to wank status.

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ETA: A mouse informs us that Hillier has confessed to scamming Wilson.