The Poet and the Murderer : A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery Hardcover - 2002
by Worrall, Simon
- Used
In The Poet and the Murderer, acclaimed journalist Simon Worrall takes readers into the haunting mind of Mark Hofmann, one of the most daring literary forgers and remorseless murderers of the late twentieth century.
He was a young Mormon boy who loathed what he believed to be the hypocrisy of his faith, and who devised secret ways to infiltrate and undermine the church. Mark Hofmann began his career by forging and selling rare Mormon coins, and quickly moved on to creating false, highly controversial religious documents that threw the Church of Latter-Day Saints into turmoil. But it was his infamous Emily Dickinson poem that would prove his greatest deception, stunning the art and literary worlds and earning him thousands from the most distinguished Dickinson scholars. It would also prove his ultimate undoing, when his desperation to keep his greatest forgery a secret drove him to commit ever more heinous crimes-including acts of shocking violence.
Filled with the page-turning suspense and tantalizing sleuthing techniques of a literary thriller, The Poet and the Murderer gives us an unforgettable portrait of a deeply irreligious man and a brilliant con artist whose greatest talent-and greatest tragedy--was his ability to conceal his mad genius behind the unique gifts and enduring celebrity of others.
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- Title The Poet and the Murderer : A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery
- Author Worrall, Simon
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2002-04-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 11405706-75
- ISBN 9780525945963 / 0525945962
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.78 x 1.01 in (21.69 x 14.68 x 2.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Hofmann, Mark, Forgery of manuscripts - Utah - Salt Lake
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001053878
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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