The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery by Simon Worrall

The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Verse, Violence and the Art of Forgery

Simon Worrall

336 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction crime history true crime dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
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This is the true story of a brilliantly forged Emily Dickinson poem sold at Sotheby's in 1997. The author's detective work led him across America, to a prison cell in Salt Lake City, where the world's greatest literary forger, Mark Hofmann, is ser...

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