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Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was an American author known for committing literary forgery. Her 2008 confessional autobiography Can You Ever Forgive Me? was adapted into the 2018 film of the same name starring Melissa McCarthy as Israel.
When her writing career stalled, Lee Israel, now profiled in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?," turned to literary forgery and theft. Lee Israel's life and illegal letter forgery will be the subject of an upcoming movie starring Melissa McCarthy.
Lee Israel came late to a life of crime. Though her forgeries of letters from luminaries like Louise Brooks, Dorothy Parker, and Ernest Hemingway would ultimately become a far more...
5 fascinating stories about Lee Israel, the real person behind Can You Ever Forgive Me? Melissa McCarthy plays the biographer turned literary forger in the new film based on Israel’s memoir.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a 2018 American biographical drama film directed by Marielle Heller, with a screenplay by Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty based on the 2008 confessional memoir of the same name by Lee Israel.
Lee Israel, a once-successful biographer, turned to literary forgery in the 1990s as a desperate measure to overcome financial hardship. Her remarkable story of deception captivated audiences and became the subject of the film "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" starring Melissa McCarthy.
Ms. Israel, who died in Manhattan on Dec. 24 at 75, was a reasonably successful author in the 1970s and ’80s, writing biographies of the actress Tallulah Bankhead, the journalist Dorothy...
For Lee Israel, a celebrity biographer by trade and the subject of Melissa McCarthy’s new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the best way to acquire such letters was to buy an old...
Lee Israel had a new career. Between April 1990 and the following summer, Israel faked roughly 400 letters from celebrities, filling them with salacious details and selling them to (mostly)...
We fact check the Can You Forgive Me? movie against the true story of literary forger Lee Israel and her letters.