Richard Suskind is an author who participated with author Clifford Irving in creating a fraudulent autobiography of the reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. Suskind was incarcerated for five months of a six-month prison sentence for his role in collaborating with Irving on the hoax. The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ... Clifford Irving (b. ... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ...
Working with his partner and fellow authorRichardSuskind, Irving concocted false interviews and forged letters to convince McGraw-Hill honchos that he had unprecedented and intimate access to one of the world's most neurotically reclusive figures.
He and Suskind were confident Hughes would never poke his nose in public to denounce the book as a fraud.
He found him in Richard Gere, who gives the performance of his life as man so seductive, confident and inscrutably driven that he winds up duping even himself: We see the wheels turning in his mind, processing chunks of reality and memory to form a new, more compelling version of events.
In 1970, Irving conspired with an old friend, RichardSuskind, who was an author himself, to create a scheme to write Hughes’ autobiography.
While Suskind carried out research in news archives, Irving forged Hughes’ handwriting and signatures to strike a deal with his publishers-McGraw Hill.
The hoax was brought to light in 1972, and both Irving and Suskind were indicted with charges of fraud.
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