The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jul/10/man-behind-dickens-dostoevsky-hoax
Date Written:  2013-07-10
Publisher:  Guardian Weekly
Year Published:  2013
Resource Type:  Article

When writer AD Harvey invented an 1862 meeting between Dickens and Dostoevsky, it was for years accepted as fact. So why did he do it – and why did he also create a series of fake academic identities?

Subject Headings

• Hoaxes