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She cut me off in mid-sentence, shouting that such questions were improper because she had thought I was calling only to ask about the marketing of a book by a dead author. A handwriting expert said Heymann's handwritten notes of the purported Lawford interview bore a striking resemblance to the writing in Heymann's purported Hutton notebooks. "I told Kristi to send me a better way of putting it if she could find one. C. David Heymann on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more... Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Download books for free. It is possible the National Archives was concealing records. In both of those books, Heymann wrote that just a few hours before Monroe killed herself, Bobby Kennedy and the actor Peter Lawford visited her home in L.A.'s tony Brentwood neighborhood. In Joe and Marilyn, Heymann drew heavily on the rich trove of books about the Yankee Clipper and the iconic blonde. What's one more or less? Most people in interviews meander off-topic, digress and revise their stories as they draw on their memories, especially those who are sick and dying. Morel was notified that "there are no records pertaining to your request." C. David Heymann (1945-2012) is the author of several New York Times bestselling biographies, including Bobby and Jackie, American Legacy, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club, and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy. When I asked for a photocopy of the article, Heymann told me he had only taken notes during his many visits to the warehouse, because the old newsprint was too fragile to put on a copy machine. In Joe and Marilyn, Heymann wrote that DiMaggio beat Monroe, wiretapped her home and stalked her by skulking around in disguises, wearing a fake beard and for hours holding up a copy of The New York Times so no one would notice him in the lobby of the Waldorf Astoria hotel. She arrived in America at age 17, according to her 2007 autobiography. She would divorce Jack and Marilyn could marry him, but she [Monroe] would have to move into the White House.". (Keep in mind that Heymann maintains that both JFK and Bobby Kennedy had affairs with Monroe.) Who told Heymann this? Download books for free. Heymann quoted the late actor and masseur Ralph Roberts as saying that Marilyn Monroe called the White House and "actually told the First Lady she wanted to marry the president," and that Jackie Kennedy, humoring the actress, said "she had no objection. He aimed much higher with his new one, writing about the life and loves of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, one of the most famous and fascinating women in the world. Kirkus Reviews said it was "a well-researched story" revealing the "profoundly unethical behavior of the medical and mental health professionals who dealt with [Monroe]." "Even when he was off-tape—and O'Brien and I spent a lot of time at dinner in New York when he would let his hair down—this is not the sort of thing he would have ever said.". Nothing troubling turned up, she told me, not even a misspelled name. "In an interview with the author, Peter Lawford originally claimed that Marilyn threatened RFK with a kitchen knife; he then revised the anecdote to indicate instead that she threw a glass of champagne at him.". He lives and works in Manhattan. C. David Heymann has 18 books on Goodreads with 9063 ratings. C. David Heymann's accounts of the rich and famous often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled. Among them: There is no McLean Police Department. The Christian Science Monitor and the New York Post raved. Few writers have immersed themselves in the world of the Kennedys as completely or successfully as C. David Heymann, whose Jackie Kennedy Onassis biography, A Woman Named Jackie, reached #1 on the New York Timesbestseller list, sold more than a million copies in hardcover, and was hailed by Peopleas the Best Book of 1989. Download books for free. Heymann also wrote that Joe Jr.'s mother, Dorothy Arnold, took her son and Milman on overnight trips to Mexico where, panty-less, she would do handstands in an apparent effort to channel Monroe's sexual allure. Heymann's Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, which Bestler also edited, has many anecdotes that are incredible but hardly credible. Nowhere in her autobiography did Dr. Fromm mention Marilyn Monroe, James Bacon or Sidney Skolsky. ", She was outraged. The Heymann archive at Stony Brook includes his handwritten notes of the purported interview with Lawford. Prior to this, from July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster. Heymann invented so many people and events for his books that he wasn't able to keep them straight. The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital by Heymann, C. David and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. When RFK came out, Witker was besieged by reporters who had read Heymann's claim that she had been Bobby Kennedy's "last great romance." We already know that Newfield wrote a column in the Post denouncing Heymann. I explained that without receipts he could not deduct those expenses on his tax return. C David HEYMANN / Ezra Pound The Last Rower A Political Profile 1st Edition 1976. She says that's not true. Readers will know what it means, and anyway…there were so many goddamn women in RFK's life, nobody'll really care. Heymann writes that Fromm told him: I have to stress that I work as a psychotherapist in Europe but not in the United States and I made that perfectly clear to Marilyn. Welcome back. Milman, chuckling, said he recalls a few trips to Baja, but not the rest of that tale. That was one mistake he never made again. Find books In a 1989 Miami Herald interview, O'Brien denied making various comments Heymann attributed to him, and pointed out that his own memoir contradicted many of the things attributed to him by Heymann. C. David Heymann (1945-2012) was the author of several New York Times bestselling biographies, including BOBBY AND JACKIE, AMERICAN LEGACY, THE GEORGETOWN LADIES' SOCIAL CLUB and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy. In May 2012, Heymann fell dead in the lobby of his New York City apartment building, but that presented no problem for his publisher, according to Emily Bestler, who edited his last four books. In this June 2, 1955 file photo, actress Marilyn Monroe, right, in a glamorous evening gown, with Joe DiMaggio, arrives at the theater. In that sense, this volume represents a first. C. David Heymann (1945-2012) is the author of several New York Times bestselling biographies, including Bobby and Jackie, American Legacy, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club, and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy.He lived in Manhattan. Heymann wrote that Sklover quit after six weeks and that Pierre Salinger, JFK's press secretary, sent her on her way with a $5,000 check—which would have created a paper trail—and an ominous warning to keep quiet. C. David Heymann is the internationally known author of such New York Times bestselling books as The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club; RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy; Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton; and A Woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. A few weeks later, Heymann found a new publisher for Poor Little Rich Girl. Preloaded Digital Audio Player Nov 2009. ", Yet years earlier, in 1989's A Woman Named Jackie, Heymann attributed that story to Lawford. Fromm was born in Sztetl, Poland, not Germany. All disputed Heymann's account. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. A three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee, he lives and works in Manhattan. I told Heymann that this was the first thing he had said in our interview that could be independently verified and that I would immediately jump on a red-eye from L.A. to New York, pick him up the next morning and drive us to that warehouse. Dr David Heymann is the Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication. In American Legacy, #1 New York Times bestselling author C. David Heymann draws upon a voluminous archive of personal interviews to present a telling portrait of John and Caroline Kennedy. What I wanted to do was a mise en scène of a life. Heymann denied any impropriety and said Kenner was motivated by spite because he had once criticized Kenner in a review. C. David Heymann. The last clause of that statement is true, but in a way they surely don't intend. No matter. Another intriguing bit of pillow talk was that Bobby Kennedy also had an affair with Russian ballet star Rudolf Nureyev, who boasted several times that he was "the sexiest man alive.". As promised, the book was salacious and gossipy. To continue reading login or create an account. Despite this, Heymann "quoted" all three men in his book… long after they had been buried. Error rating book. It was often titillating and sometimes shocking stuff. The dying man's supposed words flow smoothly, the way a writer's do after polishing. I then asked him about a group of people in his book who were also mentioned in an earlier book by Philip Van Rensselaer, a sometimes companion of Hutton. His given name was Clemens Claude Oscar Heymann. Heavy wear to cover. In fact, records and interviews with his friends show, he moved to Los Angeles, joined the Marines before Monroe died (he was photographed in uniform at her funeral) and nine months after her death married a 17-year-old San Diego woman in Southern California. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Both O'Brien's namesake son and Michael Gillette, the Texas historian who spent weeks recording oral history interviews with O'Brien, found the quotes unbelievable. In this and his previous 10 books, Heymann served up intimate details no other celebrity biographer could match. Heymann attributed this debauched tidbit to a "McLean, Virginia, police report…filed on May 25, 1965, signed by Patrol Officer Charles Duffy," who chased after but did not catch the freshman United States Senator from New York as he ran off buck-naked. As might have been predicted, it was also riddled with errors, exaggerations and shameless fabrications. Bestler's mood changed when I told her I wanted to discuss numerous fabrications Newsweek had uncovered in Joe and Marilyn. Heymann said he had obtained a copy of that article from a Staten Island warehouse that had a complete collection of old Suns. The popular Canadian magazine Maclean's praised Heymann's research, finding "his sources credible.". (He later boasted he worked for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency, but there is no independent confirmation of that.) An exhaustive cataloging of those mistakes would fill a book, so a sampling from his long career will have to suffice. An exhaustive search of public records turned up two women named Susan Sklover, who are aware of each other, but know no one else with that name. But he wasn't through with books. In his book, Van Rensselaer attributed the names to a 1920s New York Sun newspaper article, which he also made up. It's too bad CBS didn't want to hear more, because all the celebrity bios Heymann wrote for them and other publishers—dealing with JFK, Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe—are riddled with errors and fabrications. Read 67 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. In 2014 he published a book of short stories, My Beautiful City Austin, which has been included on several lists of best literature about Austin, Texas. The book spun out lurid tales that collapsed with just a phone call or two. C. David Heymann. An exasperated Witker told me, "Of course reporters believed it, because it was in a book. He lived in Manhattan. $10.50 + $4.01 shipping. Given the abundant evidence that C. David Heymann was extraordinarily reckless with the truth, why does CBS continue to sell his books, and push them on teachers? He earned a degree in hotel management from Cornell, a master's in fine arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and did work on a doctorate in English literature at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In both A Woman Named Jackie and RFK, Heymann recounts Marilyn Monroe's last afternoon alive, August 3, 1962. Asked if Heymann could have somehow gotten past her, she said Lawford was close to death and hardly able to make coherent statements, much less conduct a lengthy interview. The collection contains materials created between 1907 to 1976. Riesman, David. Heymann asked. He then embarked on what he no doubt hoped would be a long, respectable career as a literary biographer. At that point, his lawyer told him not to say another word and declared the interview over. Heymann also describes President Kennedy's evaluation of Sklover's technique—"ordinary lover"—without any indication of how Heymann could have known this. In A Woman Named Jackie and later in Bobby and Jackie, Heymann quoted the savvy Democratic Party strategist Larry O'Brien spilling his guts about the Kennedys, including a supposed incident in a Nebraska diner where, "four of the roughest, toughest-looking hombres I'd ever seen…were looking for a fight" with O'Brien and Bobby Kennedy. The department also checked its numbered police reports from 1965 and found no such report by any officer. In the back of that book, Heymann explained how the knife had turned into bubbly. See if your friends have read any of C. David Heymann's books. It sold more than a million copies in hardback and was turned into a 1991 NBC miniseries. Earlier, in RFK, Heymann quoted Marie Ridder, a well-known Washington journalist, speculating that Bobby Kennedy "had an affair" with actress Candice Bergen. Noticeably used book. Heymann said that at one point Monroe pulled a knife and lunged at Kennedy, and that the two men wrested the weapon from her. Indeed, all of Heymann's books feature long quotes from people that evidence a consistent speaking style. C. David Heymann is the New York Times bestselling author of several biographies, including Bobby and Jackie, American Legacy, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club, and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy. Heymann switched from poets to celebrities, scored big in 1983 with Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life and Legend of Barbara Hutton and then ran off a string of best-sellers that included A Woman Named Jackie (1989), his depiction of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life; Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor (1995); RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy (1998); and Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story (2009). But when a red flag is raised, publishers have an obligation to their readers to investigate. Van Rensselaer had already confessed to me that he had invented these people after his publisher complained that his book needed to be livened up or it would not sell. Joe Jr. died in 1999, long before Heymann started work on the book, and he routinely turned reporters away. ", Witker's lawyer threatened to sue. ", He added, "I may have made an error or two, or three, or four, or five—but at least I tried to write an accurate biography.". In 1988, Kristi Witker, the longtime WPIX news anchor in New York, gave Heymann some prosaic photographs for RFK and granted him an interview, which he refused to let her tape. The publisher, a subsidiary of media behemoth CBS, saysJoe and Marilyn tells "the riveting true story" of the lusty, tempestuous and brief marriage between the Yankees slugger and the iconic actress. A Woman Named Jackie: An Intimate Biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: Power, Passion, and Politics in the Nation's Capital, RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy, American Legacy: The Story of John and Caroline Kennedy, Liz: An Intimate Biography of Elizabeth Taylor, Poor Little Rich Girl: The Life And Legend Of Barbara Hutton, Ezra Pound: The Last Rower: A Political Profile, A Woman Named Jackie - Jackie Kennedy Onassis 1929-1994, American Legacy: The Triumphs and Tragedies of John and Caroline Kennedy, Winter Challenge 2012-2013: Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC. Heymann also wrote in that book about a time Bobby Kennedy abandoned a picnic in Virginia and hopped onto a motorcycle with a woman; Heymann says the two were soon observed, "copulating in public." He told me he had flown out to Los Angeles from New York many times for these interviews and stayed in hotels, so I asked for his plane tickets and lodging receipts, which would be a paper trail supporting his claim. Heymann went back to the Kennedys for RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy (1998) and scored again. Heymann is most known for his 1988 design of an environmentally friendly house for then Governor of Texas George W. Bush and Laura Bush for their Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas. Random House gave him a $70,000 advance for Poor Little Rich Girl, big money back then for a little-known writer. In Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story, he expanded on this theme. When I got Heymann (and his lawyer) on the phone, he insisted he had interviewed Hutton many times but had no tape recordings, only handwritten notes. Public records contradict many of the quotes attributed to him in the book – Heymann wrote that he left Yale for San Francisco, almost immediately married a woman he barely knew, quickly divorced her and joined the Marines. Among the many statements presented as fact in Joe and Marilyn that might have raised eyebrows at CBS was the one on Page 315. He later said he attempted suicide (a dozen Valium and half a bottle of scotch) in the aftermath of his book being pulled off shelves and pulped, and he moved to Israel for a few years. He could not describe the hotel suite where he said he repeatedly interviewed her. Unexplained is when Lawford changed this story. Whether Heymann was getting revenge on the late journalist or simply could not keep his stories straight is not clear. "Although several of the Secret Service files referred to in this chapter are currently available through the National Archives," Heymann cautioned readers, "the majority are not. Without much effort, I found nine people named in the book or known to have been involved in events mentioned in the book, including the legendary actor Cary Grant, who was once married to Hutton. A judge denied her request to block the broadcast, saying the proper approach was to sue after it aired. Her lawyer filed a lawsuit to block the NBC miniseries based on the book, declaring that none of that was true and that, contrary to Heymann's claims of cooperation, Taylor had never spoken to Heymann or anyone working for him. INDIVIDUALISM RECONSIDERED And Other Essays 1st Edition 1st Pri. When I laid all this out for Heymann, he insisted that Van Rensselaer was lying about lying and that these people and the Sun story were real. On its website, CBS urges teachers to assign to schoolchildren Heymann's book about the alleged affair between Bobby Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy. by C. David Heymann 1 edition — 1 previewable Borrow Listen. Lawford died on Christmas Eve 1984, long before any of the three books were published. And if that's the case, why did Heymann tell the knife story in the first two books? Creator C. David Heymann, 1945-2012 Provenance This collection was donated by C. David Heymann in 2011. Heymann may have found this line of inquiry boring, but he directed the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he'd bestowed his archive, to seal the part of the archive dealing with Witker. Yet back in 1994, when Heymann first made those claim in his revised A Woman Named Jackie, Newfield wrote a column in the New York Post denouncing Heymann for "libeling the dead" with this claim. When Paul Olewski, a spokesman for CBS's Simon and Schuster publishing division, called me back, he was very polite but said he did not want to hear what Newsweek had found about any of the books by Heymann CBS had published, and that Bestler would not agree to an interview with Newsweek. She said she told Heymann that soon after she graduated from college, American Heritage sent her, a 21-year-old cub reporter with an affinity for miniskirts, on the 1968 campaign trail with Bobby Kennedy, who was then vying for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She told Newsweek during a phone conversation in July that Heymann was "a true professional" who "finished the book before he died." Download for print-disabled Today's best nonfiction by C. David Heymann. My investigation of Heymann's work began the day Random House withdrew the best-seller, vowing to pulp as many of the 58,000 printed copies as it could recover. C. David Heymann: la bibliothèque numérique gratuite Z-Library | Z-Library. And when a sea of red flags floods their lobby, they need to start pulping the fiction. She asked of one passage from Heymann's book, more puzzled than angry, "How can he write that? Both said they never spoke to Heymann or any researcher. The book is a natural for C. David Heymann, whose biographical bestsellers include RFK and Jackie tomes. Heymann attributed the story to his interview with Kennedy confidant Lem Billings, who died in 1981, years before Heymann started working on the book. A teenage Irish girl, who had just been released from a Dublin mental hospital and "had a 14-inch butcher knife in her shoulder bag," was brought into the Oval Office at JFK's insistence. David Heymann is an American architect, writer, and educator. A Woman Named Jackie was No. American Aristocracy did claim one literary prize: The Village Voice's "Most Mistakes Medallion" in 1980. None did. When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in 1994, Heymann rushed out a revised and expanded version of A Woman Named Jackie that fueled a hefty spike in sales, in part because he added a torrid secret affair between the former first lady and her late husband's brother, Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968. POOR. C. David Heymann (1945-2012) is the author of several New York Times bestselling biographies, including Bobby and Jackie, American Legacy, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club, and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy. In addition to the money he got from his new publisher, Lyle Stuart, he cashed a reported $100,000 check for the dramatic rights to the book, which became an NBC television movie that won three prime-time Emmys and a Golden Globe. They were shown to the author by a confidential source.". Still, Bestler said, she paid to have the book thoroughly fact-checked just to make sure all was in order. For 30 years, I watched with astonishment and then bemusement as major publishers gave Heymann big advances, and respected media outlets—The New Yorker, The New York Times, People, Vanity Fair, USA Today and NPR—praised and promoted his books. 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You have 4 free articles remaining this month, Sign-up to our daily newsletter for more articles like this + access to 5 extra articles. C. David Heymann (1945-2012) is the author of several New York Times bestselling biographies, including Bobby and Jackie, American Legacy, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club, and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy.He lived in Manhattan. Biographer C. David Heymann, seen here at Cafe Milano in Washington, Oct. 2, 2003. C. David Heymann (1945-2012) is the author of several New York Times bestselling biographies, including Bobby and Jackie, American Legacy, The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club, and RFK: A Candid Biography of Robert F. Kennedy. $5.00 + $3.45 shipping. It consists primarily of long quotes attributed to "Rose Fromm, a German Jewish refugee" who Heymann said treated Marilyn Monroe as a therapist. Find books Speaking of this experience, he told The New York Observer in 1999 that he realized one should "never write a book about a poet if you want to sell books.". She told Newsweek Heymann could not have interviewed her husband on any of the occasions he cited because he was under her care around the clock. In a letter to his publisher's lawyer, Heymann took a contemptuous tone. "There's a great degree of difference in the amount of accuracy required between a book about Ezra Pound and a book about Barbara Hutton," he said. The hospital told me that no doctor by that name had ever worked there and that no such treatment would have been allowed. He lived in Manhattan. She then declared that "this is getting ugly" and hung up. List Price: $59.99. While Heymann at times emphasized that he taped interviews, he often refused to let those he interviewed make their own tapes. Extent, Scope, and Content Note The C. David Heymann: Ezra Pound Collection consists primarily of Heymann’s research files amassed in preparation of his book Ezra Pound, The Last Rower: A Political Profile (1976). First published in 1989 1 edition — 1 previewable Borrow Listen. The answer, according to Lawford's widow, Patricia, is that Heymann made it all up. The Columbus Dispatch called it an "engrossing portrait." Kirkus said it was "studded with outrageous bits of gaucherie, bad taste, and ignorance," and another, strangely prescient reviewer said, "Written with neither grace nor insight, and in information largely derivative and too often in error, the book is kin to those tawdry, revelatory biographies that make for today's best-selling, non-fiction list.". Heymann's second book,American Aristocracy: The Lives and Times of James Russell, Amy and Robert Lowell (1980), got savaged by reviewers. CBS says the book is based on "impressive sources and impeccable insight" so that readers "finally get behind-closed-doors access to the emotional connection between these two legendary figures. Donna Morel, a San Diego lawyer whose skepticism about passages in Heymann's books prompted this Newsweek investigation, filed an expansive and carefully crafted Freedom of Information Act request for those files Heymann said were at the National Archives. He rewrote huge chunks of the book, and the work paid off. Heymann learned his lesson about the art and craft of writing a biography, but not the one you might expect. Viking. C. David Heymann's posthumously released account Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio's torrid marriage was favorably reviewed after its July release, but Newsweek's David … Neither attended Brown, knew JFK Jr. or worked at the White House. Henry David Thoreau WALDEN Easton Press 1st Collector's Edition Full Leather. Rudin represented Dr. Edward A. Kantor, whom Heymann accused of prescribing excessive drugs for Hutton as far back as 1943. "Why would I have those?" She graduated from the Dante School in Chicago in 1931 and the University of Illinois medical school in 1938, facts supported by photographs and her medical licensing records. In other words, they read as though they were all said—or written—by the same person. C. David Heymann: free download. See why nearly a quarter of a million subscribers begin their day with the Starting 5. On the C-SPAN Networks: C. David Heymann is with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2003 Interview. In Joe and Marilyn, Heymann cites Joe DiMaggio Jr., the slugger's only son, as a source on more than 50 of the book's 393 pages. My doctorate in clinical psychology had been awarded abroad and I had no interest in going through the process all over again. In time he became much more, as solidly presented in the page-turner Bobby and Jackie: A Love Story. Heymann's response: He wouldn't know how to find it again. That drastic action came after Mickey Rudin, a top Hollywood entertainment lawyer, threatened litigation. He claimed he had secured Taylor's cooperation for the book, in which he wrote that she was beaten by two of her husbands, popped pills like candy and had a fling with Frank Sinatra. He was a large man, known for chomping on cigars, boasting that he liked to write in the nude (wearing socks) and talking up women about his kinky sexual predilections—just the kind of biographical details that would play so well in his books. Ebooks library. Check out our c david heymann selection for the very best in unique or custom, handmade pieces from our shops. But in a taped interview in the Heymann archive, that source says she saw nothing, knew nothing and asked not to be identified. Salinger, in a letter also in the Heymann archive, said Heymann wrote "dramatic lies" and refused to cooperate. Brown University, in an email, said it has no record of any student named Susan Sklover. Most publishers rely on their authors to be truthful, and diligent in their research, and most nonfiction books are not fact-checked by publishers.

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