Articles related to "Literary Hoax"

Lobsang Rampa was a fake Tibetan lama conjured up by Englishman Cyril Hoskins whose book, 'The Third Eye', was a bestseller

Witter Bynner and Arthur Davison Ficke's extremely successful attempt to make fun of modern poetry.

Hesketh Pearson's The Whispering Gallery caused literary controversy in 1926, resulting in a court case, when it was revealed as a hoax

In the 1990s, Professor Kent Johnson published poetry, claiming it was written by a Hiroshima survivor. Then it was discovered that no such poet ever existed.